Books like The Other Woman's Shoes

“It didn’t help her at all that everyone thought that the only real tragedy about her story was the common-or-garden nature of it. Nobody cared that her marriage was over. They seemed to think that it was OK just to dissolve that magic. She thought it was a bit like getting her hair cut: no one other than herself seemed to notice. She didn’t want to believe that broken promises were an accepted part of the world that she’d brought her children into. She’d have preferred to believe that she was a freak.”“She loather herself for begging… for subduing herself so entirely. She loathed herself for giving him countless opportunities. Opportunities he didn’t take.”“Then she’d remember it didn’t make any difference. Marriage wasn’t a guarantee… The bit of paper that she’d always believed was an unrepeatable lifelong commitment - the only available magic in a secular world driven by technology, profitability and bottom lines - was, after all, a bit of paper. How do you trust this century? The century of mobile-phone theft and internet porn? How do you believe there is someone out there who transcends all that is mechanical, all that is diabolical, all that is robotic, and is love?”Maybe it was the fact that my marriage was in shambles, but I didn’t expect to feel this book nearly as much as I did. The author did an incredible job of describing all the emotions involved in the break-up of a marriage, a family.The back of the book says it’s about sisters, but only this character grabbed me. The book was focused on her. The other sister was just an excess. If the author hasn’t been through this, then she has done some damn good research. I suspect she has though. It was raw and full of reality.