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Part I
Fracture
“Terrible things happen all the time. This is the terrible thing.”
—Martin Amis, The Killings in Atlanta
When Amanda Gatti went to bed the night of July 10, 2009, she thought her marriage was over. “Don't go to bed angry,” that piece of marital wisdom, like so much of its kind easier to prescribe than follow, seemed futile in a moment of such fracture. The night's volcanic and far-too-public fight had exhausted her. She crawled into bed and waited for sleep
