In the same trip to the library as my last post, I picked up The Other Woman, a breezy-read anthology of 21 essays that explore various sides of non-monogamous relationships from a female perspective. Some of America's top writers candidly discuss Jezebels, Loreleis, bitches, vixens, and home-wreckers. The essays explore deeply personal experiences, from heart-wrenching anguish to light-hearted humor to full-throttled rage, in order to show that, in the end, neither the mistress nor the wife is entirely responsible or free from blame in the destruction of a relationship.
Every "other woman" is enticingly multi-faceted: mistress, wife, girlfriend, lover, daughter, mother, co-worker, neighbor, escape, confidante. Each essay sheds a glimmer of perceptive, and often sensible, recognition of the complexity of love and devotion.
Pam Houston's essay "Not Istanbul" illuminates how destructive obsession with an affair
ooze[s] into every nook and cranny of your cerebrum, until you won't be able to think of anything else.
Every "other woman" is enticingly multi-faceted: mistress, wife, girlfriend, lover, daughter, mother, co-worker, neighbor, escape, confidante. Each essay sheds a glimmer of perceptive, and often sensible, recognition of the complexity of love and devotion.
Pam Houston's essay "Not Istanbul" illuminates how destructive obsession with an affair
ooze[s] into every nook and cranny of your cerebrum, until you won't be able to think of anything else.
- 4/6/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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