A review by mhall
Split: A Memoir of Divorce by Suzanne Finnamore

3.0

A well-off, attractive writer in an affluent California suburb gets divorced from her older husband, who has been cheating on her with another woman. Nicely written but I never felt that I connected to the author's experiences - or, maybe, it felt like she didn't have all that much insight into what she went through while getting divorced, or lacked enough distance to describe it in a way that had an overall structure or narrative that was going somewhere (despite the use of the stages of grief as chapter headings.) She also refers to her son and husband by initials, and I would occassionally get mixed up as to who was who. I was pleased that her description of herself (wide-set eyes, crisp white shirt), was exactly reflected in the author photograph.