This American Ex-Wife How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

eBook - 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz“This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a total joy to read.”—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to MeAN ELECTRIC LIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEARStudies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such woman whose life fell apart aft...er she reached a breaking point in her twelve-year marriage. But she refused to take part in that tired narrative and decided to flip the script... more