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A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal / Jen Waite.
Record details
- ISBN: 0735216460
- ISBN: 9780735216464
- Physical Description: 260 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Plume, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 34.00 |
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| Subject: | Waite, Jen > Marriage. Spouses > United States > Biography. Dysfunctional families > United States. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 306.872092 Waite | 31681020053146 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Marco Waite is sexy, funny, Jen's husband and her best friend. When they have their first baby, her life feels perfect. Then she reads an e-mail that she was never supposed to see, and it is as if someone has aimed a wrecking ball at her life. Finding more lies, infidelity, and betrayal than she could have imagined, Jen is set adrift, with only her drive to uncover the truth guiding her. Her sleuthing and persistent research yield a shocking but ultimately liberating discovery: Marco fits the textbook definition of a psychopath. Everything she believed in turns out to be an illusion. - Baker & Taylor
The author chronicles how she came to realize that her seemingly loving husbandâthe father of her infant daughter, her best friend, the love of her lifeâfits the textbook definition of a psychopath. - Baker & Taylor
"Psychopaths are manipulative, remorseless. They feel no guilt. What would happen if you thought you might be married to one? Jen Waite loves her husband. Marco is sexy, funny, her best friend--and he makes her feel like the most important person in the world. When they have their first baby, her life feels perfect. But then, just three weeks later, she accidentally reads an e-mail that she was never supposed to see, and it is as if someone has aimed a wrecking ball at her life. When Marco swears that what she saw was a simple misunderstanding, Jen desperately tries to rebuild trust in her marriage. Instead, she finds more lies, infidelity, and betrayal than she could have imagined. During a time when she should have been enjoying the sweetness of young parenthood, Jen is set adrift, with only her drive to uncover the truth guiding her. She obsessively tries to find a single moment from the past five years of her relationship with Marco to prove she once had something real, that she wasn't crazy. Gradually, her sleuthing and persistent research yield a shocking but ultimately liberating discovery: Marco fits the textbook definition of a psychopath. A memoir of incredible power, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing is a harrowing and inspiring account of a woman who finds strength forged by fire when everything she believed in turns out to be an illusion."--Jacket flap. - Baker & Taylor
The author chronicles how she came to realize that her seemingly loving husband--the father of her infant daughter, her best friend, the love of her life--fit the textbook definition of a psychopath. - Penguin Putnam
A woman discovers her marriage is built on an illusion in this harrowing and ultimately inspiring memoir.
âBe forewarned: You wonât sleep until you finish the last page.ââCaroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World
One night. One email. Two realities...
Before: Jen Waite has met the partner of her dreams. A handsome, loving man who becomes part of her family, evolving into her husband, her best friend, and the father of her infant daughter.
After: A disturbing email sparks suspicion, leading to an investigation of who this man really is and what was really happening in their marriage.
In alternating Before and After chapters, Waite obsessively analyzes her relationship, trying to find a single moment form the past five years that isn't part of the long con of lies and manipulation. Instead, she finds more lies, infidelity, and betrayal than she could have imagined. With the pacing and twists of a psychological thriller, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing looks at how a fairy tale can become a nightmare and what happens when âit could never happen to meâ actually does.
