Title:
If we break : a memoir of marriage, addiction, and healing / Kathleen Buhle.
ISBN:
9780593241059
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
xii, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Before. Portland ; The South Side ; Will you marry me? ; It's a girl ; Belonging ; That girl with her trumpet ; Need ; Quitting ; And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? ; Crossroads ; You cannot tell anyone ; Quest for friends ; Silly girl from Chicago ; New reality ; Biden blood -- During. Beginning of what's next ; My favorite person ; Something shattered ; Are you okay? ; Seems lonelier this time ; Flags ; No comfort, no cure ; Drunk at Christmas ; Do you know where Hunter is? ; Photographs ; My shame ; Navy ; Abiding love ; Good wife ; Fireworks ; It's not about the chicken ; Why do you keep leaving us? ; Detective work ; Emotional life support ; No more secrets -- After. New battle, a new plan ; Good Friday ; Say your life is great, and snap, something bad happens ; Trust me on this ; Reclaiming my name.
Summary:
The former wife of Hunter Biden discusses the heartbreaking collapse of her marriage, which ended in 2017 amid his then-secret struggles with addiction, and her own journey of self-discovery to reclaim her identity.
For decades Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife. A naïve young woman on the South Side of Chicago, she met Hunter Biden at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Oregon. Within months she found herself pregnant and engaged. Determined to build her family on a foundation of love, she learned how rapidly a marriage can fall apart as Hunter's drinking evolved into dependency. Her memoir is a chronicle of radical honesty, speaking to women who have lost part of their identity and want to reclaim it. -- adapted from jacket.
OCLC Number:
on1309325753
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