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Ron CharlesStewart O'Nan seems incapable of writing a false lineThe Odds is another in his growing body of distinctly trim booksOnce again, he's given us a story line that seems daringly sparse. Even the opening punchesimmediately give way to the small, plain movements of a middle-aged couple in a hotel room. This willfully anti-dramatic structure succeeds only because O'Nan writes well enough to render the choreography of domestic life as captivating as the drama that usually keeps our attention in fictionA few hours with this witty, sad, surprisingly romantic novel might be a better investment for troubled couples than a month of marriage counseling. The Washington Post Publishers WeeklyMarion and Art, on the brink of divorce and bankruptcy, head back to Niagara Falls, where they spent their honeymoon decades earlier.