During the Covid pandemic, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, until — with no warning or explanation — her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her and their three children. Overnight, her steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. In debut author Belle Burden's acclaimed new book, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Burden revisits this shocking incident and its aftermath, reexamining her marriage through a new lens and reckoning with her own family history and the lessons she learned about how women are expected to behave in the face of betrayal. With honesty and grace, she deftly carves a path through heartbreak to reclaim her story and offers a measured, empathetic response to domestic rupture. As readers, we wonder: can we see the invisible fault lines in intimate relationships or truly know the people closest to us?
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