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Her turn / Katherine Ashenburg.

by Ashenburg, Katherine.

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.

Divorced women -- Fiction.

Women journalists -- Fiction.

9780735280762 (trade pbk.)

224 p. ; 21 cm.

In the autumn of 2015, forty-something journalist Liz is working at a national newspaper in Washington, D.C., where Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency is the talk of the town. The divorced parent of a college-age son, she appears to lead a full, happy life: devoted friends, a job she adores, a breezy dating life. But deep inside, Liz is stalled in neutral, stuck in a clandestine affair with her boss and still brooding on her marriage, which ended in betrayal, hurt and anger ten years ago. Liz's job is to edit "My Turn," a column of personal essays from readers. Her tidy life is upended when a submission about a marital squabble arrives from Nicole, the woman who had an affair with Liz's husband and is now his wife. Wife Two has no idea that she is sending an essay to Wife One, and Liz keeps this secret as she engages in an increasingly personal critique of the piece. But the existence of the essay destabilizes Liz, and she starts acting erratically--publishing provocative essays that infuriate her colleagues, investing in a pile of unread self-help books about "forgiveness" and indulging in questionable romantic decisions. Soon she is caught in a tangled web of her own making, with no easy escape.

Psychological fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Women's fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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