The Ghost At The Table, by Suzanne Berne

I liked this book a lot, though I thought it was flawed. It was one of those books where the parallels (in this case, the narrator's job to her life) are so obvious, you sort of feel bad for enjoying them anyway. Very artfully done. Berne does a nice job of setting up her protagonist for a fall at the end, and illustrates painful family dynamics really, really well.