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Author:
Molly Roden Winter
Publisher:
Doubleday
Date:
January 16, 2024
Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a friend, she met Matt, an unbelievably hot younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that he encouraged her to accept. So begins Molly's unexpected open marriage, and with it a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules to start: Don't date an ex. Don't date someone you work with. Don't go to anyone's house. And above all, don't fall in love. Spoiler alert: They end up breaking most of their rules, even the most important one.
What The Reviewers Say
Bound to be passed furtively from friend to friend and gobbled up after the kids go to bed. It will make for an electrifying book club pick.
Roden Winter is writing in unstinting detail about the mechanics of her marriage’s transition from monogamous to open (some sex on the side) to fully polyamorous (in which couples are allowed to have full-fledged concurrent relationships). She holds nothing back, even when she should.
An unsparing account of a polyamorous life.
Winter shares her and her husband’s deeply personal, candid story about deciding to make their relationship non-monogamous.
