Almost anything I would say about this book would be a spoiler. Like ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ it is a slow-burning look at a relationship in crisis, although the two partners are worrying about different things. Junior and Henrietta—Hen, for short—live very alone in farm country, for from everything, and Reid’s prose is lean and spare to match. When a stranger arrives on their doorstep with an offer they cannot refuse, their next steps force them to look at their lives in new ways. Reid’s book is a subtle exploration of gender and what compromises we’re willing to make to share a life with another.