Name: Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
SKU: 64623784
Price: 443.00 ZAR
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Author: Belle Burden
ISBN: 9780593733318

Type

Physical Book

Author

Belle Burden

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.08x13.97x1.78 cm

ISBN13

9780593733318

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden (Author) · Penguin · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage"

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

“Riveting . . . examines the very nature of intimacy.”—Joyce 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 didn’t.

In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building 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 was—someone nicknamed “Belle the Good”—gives 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.

Belle Burden

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Belle Burden es abogada especializada en casos de inmigración juvenil. Sus artículos han aparecido en The New York Times. Belle estudió en la Phillips Exeter Academy y en Harvard College, y obtuvo su doctorado en Derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Nueva York. Vive en la ciudad de Nueva York con sus tres hijos.

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