Strangers: A Memoir of MarriageBelle Burden BACKLIST Jan 13, 2026 Hardcover Biography & Autobiography Memoirs Family & Relationships Divorce & Separation Biography & Autobiography Women 256 pages 21. 7 cm H 14. 5 cm W 2. 6 cm T 396. 9 g Wt A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriagean aching, love filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy "Riveting examines the very nature of intimacy."Joyce Carol Oates It was a great love
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Belle Burden
BACKLIST | Jan 13, 2026
Hardcover
Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
Family & Relationships / Divorce & Separation
Biography & Autobiography / Women
256pages
21.7 cm H | 14.5 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 396.9 g Wt
A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage—an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy
"Riveting...examines the very nature of intimacy."—Joyce Carol Oates
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, Belle 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 whose nickname was “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 and rediscovers trust in herself. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.