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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Day After the Life You Planned
Chapter 3: — One Bad Year
Chapter 4: — Night Burgers and Legal Bills
Chapter 5: — Shopping for a New Self
Chapter 6: — Grocery Store Grief
Chapter 7: — Tulips, Tarot, and Denial
Chapter 8: — Hot Divorce Energy
Chapter 9: — The Cry You Can’t Pretty Up
Chapter 10: — First Dates and Other Costumes
Chapter 11: — Lawn Darts and a Good Complication
Chapter 12: — Basement Living and Boundaries
Chapter 13: — Holidays on Thin Ice
Chapter 14: — Beautiful Fights and Bad Plans
Chapter 15: — Rants, Romance, and the Work of Staying
Chapter 16: — The Closure That Isn’t
Chapter 17: — Ambulances and Tough Love
Chapter 18: — Physio, Foot Posters, and Honest Limits
Chapter 19: — Triathlons and Teaspoons
Chapter 20: — Spin Class Apologies
Chapter 21: — Cats, Keys, and a Roommate Offer
Chapter 22: — Better Luck Next Year
Chapter 23: — Cry Spots and Capacity
Chapter 24: — Signing Here, Living There
Chapter 25: — No Neat Fix Required
Description
What does heartbreak look like when you’re twenty-nine, broke, and very online? In Monica Heisey’s sharply funny and tender debut, we meet Maggie — a grad student whose short marriage collapses into a long, chaotic year. She tries dating apps. She buys a SAD lamp and a posture harness. She cyberstalks her ex via the cat’s Instagram. She makes collages and burns herbs and has elaborate fights in her head and sometimes in public. Most days, she’s just trying to put one foot in front of the other.
Around her is a fierce, imperfect circle of friends: Amirah, Clive, two Laurens, and a mentor named Merris who is wise, prickly, and exactly the right kind of honest. There’s Amy, who arrives with her own ‘category five divorce’ and a willingness to say the thing out loud. And there’s Simon, a nice man who complicates everything, not by being terrible, but by being good.
This is divorce in the age of group chats and ghosting, where grief lives beside memes and delivery burgers at 4 a.m. The voice is confessional and quick, the jokes land hard, and the hard moments land harder. Through therapy sessions, a falling-out and slow repair with friends, a move back home, and a late-night cry behind a church wall, Maggie learns to sit with the feeling and keep walking. The result isn’t a grand epiphany. It’s smaller, truer: a life you can live, one morning and one decision at a time.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone navigating a breakup and craving something funny, honest, and specific
- Readers who love stories about friendship as the real love story
- People who want modern, messy, and deeply relatable writing about therapy, dating, and small joys