03591cam a2200601 i 4500 2726035320 TxAuBib 20260409120000.0 250410s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593733318 hardcover 0593733312 hardcover (OCoLC)1513888558 TxAuBib rda Burden, Belle, author. Strangers : a memoir of marriage / Belle Burden. First edition. New York : The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2026] ©2026. 241 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20260409. Burden, Belle Marriage. Women lawyers United States Biography. Married people United States Biography. Spouses United States Biography. Wives United States Biography. Marriage Psychological aspects. Man-woman relationships. fast Communication in marriage. Interpersonal relations. fast Self-actualization (Psychology.) fast Conduct of life. fast Marriage. fast Women lawyers. fast Married people. fast Spouses. fast Wives. fast Marriage fast Psychological aspects. Man-woman relationships. fast Communication in marriage. fast Interpersonal relations. fast Self-actualization (Psychology.) fast Conduct of life. fast United States. fast Autobiographies. fast Biographies. fast Autobiographies. fast Dial Press, publisher.