divorced women

Rachel Sorensen lives in fear of her ex-husband until a passing stranger comes to her rescue, but she soon learns that the man she owes her life to plans to collect on her promise.

Angela DeSaria Malone's visions of a perfect marriage, home, and children crumble under the weight of lost dreams and she returns to her home in West End where she unexpectedly meets a man who teaches her how to love again and gets to know a seventeen-year-old girl whose own mother abandoned her.

The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.

Three grown sisters, Pagan, Prana, and Zhikr, are forced to cope with an unplanned pregnancy, the breakup of an affair with a married man, and the painful end of a lesbian relationship without their mother's guidance, which leads them to understand and appreciate her early life and her refusal to sacrifice her sense of self.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sydney, once divorced and recently widowed, takes a tutoring job at the summer cottage of the Edwards family on the New Hampshire coast where she is supposed to prepare daughter Julie for the SAT exam, but what she anticipated as a relaxing idyll becomes complicated when she discovers Julie is a "slow" learner, she clashes with Mrs. Edwards, and the two grown Edwards sons become rivals for Sydney's affections.

Paris Armstrong, devastated when her husband leaves her after twenty-four years of marriage, moves across the country to San Francisco where a less-than-satisfactory dating experience leads her to make some important decisions about the direction of her future.

Nora Silk moves to a typical suburban community in the 1950s, determined to raise her two children without a husband and with a liberated spirit that foreshadows the decade ahead.

Khadra Shamy, a Syrian immigrant raised in Indiana to be observant of Islamic customs, becomes confused about what it means to be Muslim and American, and after the rape and murder of a friend, a disastrous marriage, and a brief return to Syria, she comes back to the U.S. in the late 1980s to find answers to her questions and direction for her life.

A memoir in which the author discusses, after learning that marriage to her partner, Felipe, was the only way to keep from being detained at the American border, various aspects of marriage, including compatibility, fidelity, social expectations, the risk of divorce, and responsibility.