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Wendy Swallow is the author of two memoirs that redefine the literature on divorce and remarriage. First came Breaking Apart: A Memoir of Divorce (Hyperion/Theia, 2001) and now The Triumph of Love Over Experience: A Memoir of Remarriage (Hyperion/Theia, 2004). Swallow, a former Washington Post reporter, uses the prism of her own experience to write about the modern reality of divorce and remarriage in an effort to dispel the popular myths and out-dated advice surrounding these difficult life events. “So many of the books on divorce and remarriage are prescriptive, books that tell you what to do and how to go about it but offer little more. They are helpful, but when I was going through my divorce, I longed for something more honest, for books that would acknowledge the overwhelming emotional currents I knew we were all feeling,” Swallow says. “I wanted to talk about what it felt like to let my three-year-old go to bed without a kiss from me in a home where I was no longer welcome. I wanted to write about what it felt like to have married friends envy my single status, and what it felt like to date men who treated my children like pesky pets.

 

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