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LocationOakland
StatusOn Order
Call NoBIOGRAPHY BURDEN
TitleStrangers : a memoir of marriage / Belle Burden.
AuthorBurden, Belle author
Barcode47660111119596
CollectionNF Biography
Summary"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 whiskey 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"-- Dust jacket flap.

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OaklandOn Order47660111119596BIOGRAPHY BURDENNF BiographyNew ShelfOn Order

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593733318 hardcover
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 306.8109 23/eng/20260109
Personal Name Burden, Belle author
Title Statement Strangers : a memoir of marriage / Belle Burden.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2026
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : The Dial Press, [2026]
Physical Description 241 p. hardcover 22 cm
Summary, Etc. "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 whiskey 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"-- Dust jacket flap.
Subject-Personal Name Burden, Belle Marriage
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Self-actualization (Psychology)
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Conduct of life
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Interpersonal relations
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Man-woman relationships
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Marriage sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Communication in marriage
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Divorce sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women lawyers United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women lawyers United States Biography sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Divorced women Biography sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Separation (Psychology) sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Married people Biography sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Married people United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Betrayal sears
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Spouses United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Wives United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Marriage Psychological aspects
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Added Entry, Corporate Name Dial Press publisher