There is pain in every divorce story, but not every divorce story can be related by a narrator as capable as Gina Frangello. Blow Your House Down, Frangello’s raw, eloquent account of the demise of her marriage, is an exemplar of self-reflection, tinged with optimism about the power to recover one’s life from the depth of suffering.

... uneven, provocative.

In this raw, red-hot memoir, novelist and editor Frangello’s in-your-face starting point is the fact that she has committed adultery.

Searingly honest and compulsively readable, this memoir serves as a post–#MeToo feminist dictum about the deeply complex and multilayered emotional and sexual lives of women. With humor and a no-holds-barred self-inspection, the author illuminates these layers and reminds us that 'the clean reduction of a woman to any prime number is always a lie'.

In this searing memoir, novelist Frangello charts the spectacular highs and devastating lows of her midlife with extraordinary candor.