It wasnt a divorce memoir per se.
When Ursula Parrot published her first novel1929s sensationalEx-Wifeshe didnt put her name on the cover.
The ripples are much bigger than that transactional event.
Todaythe stigma of divorceis not nearly as damning as it was in Parrots time.
How do you do it?
A previous generation of divorce memoirs promised a happy ending at the end of the rainbow.
But this new crop of divorce memoirs makes no such promises, Smith said.
They dont have to have happy endings.
Perhaps that ubiquity is its own sign of progress, Lenz says.
When my book came out, Leslie Jamisons book came out on the same day, she recalls.
People said, Isnt it crazy?
Two divorce books hit the bestseller list!
and I said, World War II books do this all the time.
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Ephron may be best known for reinventing the romantic comedy on screen.
Her 2008 divorce memoir examined that obsession on the other side of her husbands marriage-ending affair.
She also writes of other long-lasting relationships with friends, family, and even her Nashville bookstore.
But the acclaimed poet turned to the memoir genre to write of her divorce and life afterwards.
Her 2024 memoir is at times painful, funny, and brilliantsometimes all within a single page.
Gilbert later wrote of her postEat, Pray, Lovecelebrity in two subsequent books,CommittedandBig Magic.
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