Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year

“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”—Sadie Stein, The New York Times

“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are important.”—The Washington Post

“A compulsively readable book.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Enthralling . . . incendiary reading.”—Daphne Merkin, Air Mail

In Lives of the Wives, author Carmela Ciuraru offers a witty, provocative look inside the tum...