As summer moves into its most languorous days, it’s a perfect time to dive into books about love, obsession and madness. You would be hard-pressed to find a more unhealthy example of obsession than that of the narrator in Maud Ventura’s MY HUSBAND (HarperVia, 260 pp., $28.99), a cautionary tale about marital claustrophobia translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day,” says the woman, a beautiful mother of two who lives in an elegant house in the Parisian suburbs. But she restrains herself. “I know I have to control myself in order to love.”

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