Emie’s Reviews > Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage > Status Update

„With only a few sentences, I could step over an invisible line, becoming a stereotype: the bitter, discarded wife ranting about her villainoud husband.
I told myself to be graceful, easy. I told myself not to say too much. I put on my summer dresses. I went to cocktail parties.[…]I made small talk on the pier[…] as I stood there, alone among the married couples, wanting to die.“