In Malamud's new novel, Franny faces the biggest challenge of her life: simultaneously loving two men. The zany, engaging character first introduced in Three on a Couch has married the love of her life, Detective Nicholas Pagliara. Their idyllic life suddenly shatters when Nick, shot in a drug bust, drifts into a coma. Franny finds herself alone and pregnant, and her life begins to fall apart. She realizes that Nick may not come out of the coma-and if he does, he might never be the same. Her worst fears are realized when Nick wakes up and inexplicably vanishes from his hospital room. Franny...