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Strangers: A Memoir Of Marriage
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A Gorgeous Memoir About The Sudden End To A Seemingly Happy MarriageAn Aching, LoveFilled, And Transcendent Account Of Surviving Betrayal And Discovering JoyRiveting...Examines The Very Nature Of Intimacy.Joyce Carol Oatesit Was A Great Love Story, One For The Ages. The Speed Of Our Beginning And The Speed Of Our Ending Felt Like Matching Bookends. They Both Came Out Of Nowhere. He Wanted It, He Wanted Me. And Then He DidnT.In March 2020, Belle Burden Was Safe And Secure With Her Family At Their House On MarthaS Vineyard, Navigating The Early Days Of The Pandemic TogetherBuilding Fires In The Late Afternoons, Drinking Whisky Sours, Making Roast Chicken. Then, With No Warning Or Explanation, Her Husband Of Twenty Years Announced That He Was Leaving Her. Overnight, Her Caring, Steady Partner Became A Man She Hardly Recognized. He Exited His Life With Her Like An Actor Shrugging Off A Costume.In Strangers, Belle Revisits Her Marriage, Searching For Clues That Her Husband Was Not Who She Always Thought He Was. As She Examines Her Relationship Through A New Lens, She Reckons With Her Own Family History And The Lessons She Intuited About How A Woman Is Expected To Behave In The Face Of Betrayal. Through All Of It, She Is Transformed. The Discreet, Compliant Woman She Once WasSomeone Whose Nickname Was Belle The GoodGives Way To Someone Braver, Someone Determined To Use Her Voice.With Unflinching Honesty And Profound Grace, Burden Charts A Path Through Heartbreak To Show The Power Of A Woman Who Refuses To Give Up On Love And Rediscovers Trust In Herself. Strangers Is A Stunning, Deeply Moving, Compulsively Readable Memoir Heralding The Arrival Of A Thrilling New Literary Talent.
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