If You Would Just

For readers of Crazy Love and Goodbye, Sweet Girl, a searing memoir of an eight-year abusive marriage in Miami, and the complicated journey from self-doubt and cultural compliance to the courage to leave.

People ask, “Did you know he was like that before you married him? Why didn’t you just leave? What made you finally say, ‘No more’?”

Angela Kelsey had every advantage a woman in her position could ask for: a PhD, a career, financial independence, a family close by. When Lee roared into her ...