I’ve been reading SHADOWS ON THE HUDSON, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and have realized that many of his books, not just MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN, are about a man caught between his obligations to three different women. He makes it seem like the paranoia and despair in the post-WWII Jewish community, and the shrinking world (because of the vast numbers killed off) made this commonplace. As if there weren’t enough men to go around. These men are running around caught between their dead wives (who often turn up living), their living wives, and their mistresses. I picked up a third novel of his to test this, and it was ALSO about a man with three women.