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Strangers : a memoir of marriage / Belle Burden.

Burden, Belle, (author.). Dial Press, (publisher.).

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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593733318
  • ISBN: 0593733312
  • Physical Description: 241 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2026]

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Burden, Belle > Marriage.
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Adultery > United States > Biography.
Spouses > United States > Biography.
Wives > United States > Biography.
Marriage > Psychological aspects.
Man-woman relationships.
Communication in marriage.
Interpersonal relations.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Conduct of life.
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Autobiographies.

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Statesville Main Library B BURDEN BUR (Text) 33114024734584 Adult New Nonfiction Checked out 08/25/2026