No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

A Vogue & Vulture Best Book of the Year (So Far) "Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise." --Jia Tolentino "An investigation, an invocation, a mood." --Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post "A personal accounting of heartache. . . . Mlotek's writing reaches toward -- and actually meets -- poetry." --Alissa Bennett, The New York Times Book Review "A cool appraisal of millennial divorce." --Emma Alpern, Vulture An intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her "husbands." As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother's mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire, an ordeal that promised something better on the other side of something bad. But when she