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Strangers : a memoir of marriage.
'Strangers' is a gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage--an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy. With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Belle 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.
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- ISBN: 9780593733318
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York (State) : Random House Publishing Group, 2026.
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| General Note: | LA |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation |
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A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriageâan aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy
âRiveting . . . examines the very nature of intimacy.ââJoyce Carol Oates
It 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 didnât.
In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Marthaâs Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic togetherâbuilding 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, Burden 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 wasâsomeone nicknamed âBelle the Goodââgives 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. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.
