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Strangers

A Memoir of Marriage

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Strangers

Auteur(s): Belle Burden
Narrateur(s): Belle Burden
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Burden’s searing, probing memoir explores . . . what she learned about intimacy and her own spirit.”—People​​

“A beautifully written instant classic. Strangers is gripping and heartbreaking and a must-read for every wife—and husband.”—Graydon Carter

“Asks us to examine life’s most perplexing questions: Can we see the invisible fault lines in a marriage or truly know the people closest to us?”—Lori Gottlieb

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 whisky 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.
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I pressed preview and immediately bought it and listened to it in less than a day. It was so well written and the narration by the author was well done. I was fascinated how a person could just do this to another. A heart wrenching cautionary tale.

Riveting

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A deeply disturbing memoir of an innocent woman systematically stripped of her financial independence, mental health, and dreams for the future by a vindictive master manipulator. The takeaway: no matter how much you love your spouse, always protect your own interests.

A warning to those considering marriage

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A moving and deeply satisfying and human memoir.When I heard that the modern love article was published I cried out in delight.

Honest courageous truthful writing

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Great book. As someone who has lived a version of this story, I felt seen on basically every page. It also had me wondering if there is a secret manual being quietly passed around among men detailing exactly how to be shady when ending a marriage, because even in a much lower tax bracket, the similarities were uncanny.

Validating

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Belle’s love that she had for her husband must have surprised him when he read her story. I wonder if he every stops and thinks, “I really screwed up a wonderful life.

Belle’s love

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