Jill Ciment and her husband, the painter Arnold Mesches, who died in 2016 at 93. Ciment writes about their relationship, which began when she was a teenager, in her new memoir, "Consent." ...

Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.

Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details.