'Extraordinary. A story about belonging in liminal spaces, and longing for things seemingly just out of reach. A searing, beautiful book.' Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun AgeSusan “Zuzu” Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and her wife has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder if she’s chosen wrong at every turn. Choosing to live with her white mother over her Black father in the divorce, choosing to become a lawyer rather than an artist, and most importantly, choosing to marry Agnes despite her unrequited feelings for her male best friend Cash. When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, the “what-ifs” in her mind become too loud to ignore.Warm, candid, and with no easy answers on sex, aging, or friendship, this is an astonishing debut.
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‘Extraordinary. A story about belonging in liminal spaces, and longing for things seemingly just out of reach. A searing, beautiful book.’ Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun AgeSusan “Zuzu” Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and her wife has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder if she’s chosen wrong at every turn. Choosing to live with her white mother over her Black father in the divorce, choosing to become a lawyer rather than an artist, and most importantly, choosing to marry Agnes despite her unrequited feelings for her male best friend Cash. When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, the “what-ifs” in her mind become too loud to ignore.Warm, candid, and with no easy answers on sex, aging, or friendship, this is an astonishing debut.

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 2 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm
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Paperback
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204
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Year Published

2025-7-17
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241726573
About The Author

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship and two MacDowell fellowships for her writing, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Yaddo. She is the winner of the 2019 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Her work has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts, and her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, and Electric Literature, amongst others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Jackie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their family. THE OTHER WIFE is her debut novel.

Extraordinary. A story about belonging in liminal spaces, and longing for things seemingly just out of reach. A searing, beautiful book

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