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Heartburn
When your marriage implodes, write the recipe for what comes next 🍰
Who it's for
Ephron famously believed that if you tell the story yourself, you are the hero rather than the victim, and Heartburn is that idea in action: a woman whose marriage blows up in the most humiliating way possible takes the story back by making it funny.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Heartburn is a 1983 novel by Nora Ephron, published by Alfred A. Knopf and drawn from the end of her marriage to journalist Carl Bernstein. Narrator Rachel Samstat, a New York food writer, has moved to Washington, D.C., for her husband Mark's political journalism career and is pregnant with their second child when she discovers he is having an affair.
Where to find it
Widely in print, in libraries, and as an ebook and audiobook.
Before you start
Heads up: Infidelity during a pregnancy.
Age: Adult; suggested 16+
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 1 (tr. Constance Garnett)
