The Divorce Memoir I Carried Around With Me For a Month
‘No Fault' author Haley Mlotek on gossiping about yourself, divorce movies, and her “memoir of romance and divorce”
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Devoted Hung Up readers will recall that I love divorced women, and hope to become one someday.1 That’s part of why I devoured Haley Mlotek’s new book, “No Fault,” a memoir about her own separation. The specifics of the breakup are left vague in the text, but the contours of the separation feel achingly specific. Intercut between the moments of memoir is research about divorce historically and today, primary sources about the political, civil, and emotional ways one undoes a marriage.
“No Fault” is wonderful, with sections that singe and linger. The text feels like a thoughtful wandering: what conclusions can we ever really draw about finding harmony with someon…
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