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Available: The unfiltered and empowering new memoir for women about sex, dating and divorce after 40

Laura Friedman Williams · 2021

A candid memoir by Laura Friedman Williams about rediscovering sexuality, confidence, and identity after discovering her husband's infidelity and subsequent divorce at age 40+. The work combines humorous anecdotes with serious reflection on womanhood, motherhood, and female agency.

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What this book knows

Divorce at 40 forces a woman to reclaim her body, desire, and selfhood through the unglamorous, hilarious, and transformative education of sex with strangers.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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embodiment

I stand paralyzed next to the hotel bed, staring at the closed bathroom door, behind which is the stranger about to end my post-marriage virginity.
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I anxiously ramble that I'm newly single and back in the day women wore their bushes with pride — then she tells me to roll over and hold open my butt cheeks.
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self-and-identity

The experiences of the past few weeks — flirting, talking, having sex — has unleashed a previously forbidden self I cannot wrap my head around.
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I know this about myself now: I am a person who can transform and endure. This did not happen to me — I made it happen.
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desire

Sleeping with Blaze proves I can be a mother and a fulfilled woman — that the two are not mutually exclusive.
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He opens his arms and I step inside them; I feel like I might be having a spiritual breakthrough, so strong is my reaction to being touched.
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