Tender is the Night

I loved this book. The ultimate enabling/codependent relationship! Wow! So insightful, but Fitzgerald knew from personal experience what it was like to enable a mentally ill spouse. 

I liked it even more than The Great Gatsby. It was also appealing because many of the places they traveled were places that I have been. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Tender Is the Night—the last of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s four completed novels, and the author’s favorite—sprawls among dozens of characters and settings across Western Europe before and after World War I. Although its messy, heartbreaking story of mental illness, alcoholism, and the disintegration of a marriage is somehow unsatisfying compared with The Great Gatsby’s perfectly balanced narrative, Tender Is the Night is for many readers more powerful in its enduring pull: As Fitzgerald unfolds the tale of Dick and Nicole Diver, we pass through infatuation, seduction, and ardor only to end in a kind of strange regret. Few other fictions evoke as well as this one the emotional weather of real life, the currents and temptations that envelop us without ever quite finding rest in an embrace.