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Say ‘I Do’ to the Divorce Memoir
Everyone’s writing about the end of their marriage, for better or worse.
It’s ordered chronologically with sweetly practical tips (start a journal; find a new favorite song; celebrate the day when the groove on your ring finger disappears) for raging, grieving, and moving on. TikTok-famous Clare had a high-stress career as a photo editor and a lukewarm marriage with someone who wasn’t Jesus when when she started writing emails to nuns she found on the internet, confessing that she thought she might have a religious calling. As much cultural history as memoir, Mlotek’s book takes detours to talk about the unrecorded divorces of the 19th century, the unrecognized brevity of America’s postwar marriage boom, and movies like Waiting to Exhale.
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