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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Burden's searing, probing memoir explores . . . what she...
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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.
Author: Belle Burden
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.41w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780593733318
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025
Booklist 11/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025
About the Author
Belle Burden holds a BA from Harvard College and a law degree from the New York University School of Law. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times. She lives with her children in New York City.
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.
Author: Belle Burden
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.41w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780593733318
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025
Booklist 11/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025
About the Author
Belle Burden holds a BA from Harvard College and a law degree from the New York University School of Law. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times. She lives with her children in New York City.
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