Fiction about divorce?

[Anonymous]

I am really going through a hard time and sometimes I like to escape by reading fictions versions of my struggles. Can anyone recommend a novel that features divorce but not played for laughs or as a triumphant plot point?

I’m looking for: sorrow, betrayal, abandonment, and slow rebuilding or maybe none at all. Dark, sad, depressing or unsatisfying endings might be ok. Cheerful victory of singledom and First Wives Club dance montages are not the vibe I want.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure this will be healthy for you?

[Anonymous]

Fleischman is in trouble
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
There’s a Rachel Cusk book about divorce
Leslie Jamison has a divorce memoir

[Anonymous]

Sorry not mysteries of Pittsburgh—there’s a different Chabon book where the main character is getting divorced

Also, the days of abandonment by Elena ferrante

[Anonymous]

The War of the Roses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry not mysteries of Pittsburgh—there’s a different Chabon book where the main character is getting divorced

Also, the days of abandonment by Elena ferrante

OP and thank you for indulging my questionable ask. We have similar taste and you are giving me some great titles I haven’t read by authors I know I enjoy but haven’t thought about in a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure this will be healthy for you?

Given all the other things I could be doing, yes. I promised my friends I wouldn’t do anything that would put me in jail. I have little kids at home and limited childcare so a wild bender or even a few hours at the gym isn’t really an option.

Don’t take reading away from me, too. I promise I’ll be careful and watch some fluffy tv to balance it all out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The War of the Roses

This was on every grownups’ nightstand when I was a kid. Now I’m curious to finally read it.

[Anonymous]

Do yourself a favor and get on the chumplady reddit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do yourself a favor and get on the chumplady reddit.

I’m trying to get away from places like that and dcum in the evening. Too easy to get stuck and perseverate until 1 am with nothing to show for it. I’m ready for a plot and a character that isn’t me.

[Anonymous]

OP if you’re truly looking for fiction that has devastating portrayals of unhappy marriages, try Richard Yates.

[Anonymous]

Light Years by James Salter

[Anonymous]

Le Divorce by Diane Johnson. Light but not lightweight, takes place in Paris.

[Anonymous]

A quick thriller type of read is Mine by Courtney Cole.

A wife learns that her husband is having an affair right as she is home alone to sit out a hurricane. She lures the girlfriend over to the house, messaging from her husband’s iPad. It goes on from there. Nothing too terrible, but it many satisfy the revenge fantasy in a harmless way.

[Anonymous]

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty