Divorcing - Susan Taubes

Divorcing is Susan Taubes’s only novel. Published in 1969, and now reissued by NYRB Classics, it is about much more than the breakup of a marriage. Perhaps it is mostly about misogyny and how it can discourage and deaden a clever woman. It is also about being haunted by the ghosts of the Holocaust and the ghosts of a marriage. And it is about the kind of rupture, both personal and historical, that can’t be neatly resolved, not in life nor in a novel. “What is the proper way to dispose of a wedding gown one can’t give to one’s daughter or daughter-in-law?” the woman at the centre of the book wonders. “No proper way.”

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