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Language
English
Description
"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce. With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, the small city became The Divorce Colony-- the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses, and the center of a heated national debate over the future of American marriage. White unveils the incredible social,...