by Julie Metz
First published 2009
Julie Metz thought she had everything figured out. She lived with her husband Henry and six-year-old daughter in a beautiful old house outside New York City. Henry was charismatic and charming, devoted to his family. Then Henry collapsed on their kitchen floor from a pulmonary embolism. Within hours, Julie became a widow and single mother at 44. Six months later, she made a devastating discovery. Henry had cheated throughout their twelve-year marriage. He had even carried on a relationship with one of Julie's close friends. Now Julie must confront the gap between the man she thought she married and the man Henry actually was. She faces the challenge of rebuilding not just her daily life as a single parent, but her entire sense of who she is. This memoir follows her journey from the shock of sudden loss through the deeper betrayal of learning painful truths about the person she trusted most.
Genres: memoir, non-fiction, biography-memoir, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New York City
Period: 21st-century
352 pages · Hardcover · Voice