The Divorcées: A Novel

by Rowan Beaird

not just as if they knew one another, but as if they were meant to know one another.

But I didn’t think about what I’m going to tell their teachers or whether I’ll still have dinner with Barbara and Kate, because their husbands will be there, and that will be odd, won’t it, to just have me be there alone?”

“And there are so many things like, well, for Christmas, will I just go to all of the parties by myself, when everyone is there with their husbands?

“I’m much better off alone. I think—I think a lot of girls would be.”