The Other Woman

Genres:

Memoir, Non-Fiction

Themes:

deception , essays , infidelity , inspiration , psychology

Brief Summary

From a list of America's most respected and award-winning female authors, this collection explores the highly personal, sometimes anguished, sometimes hilarious, but always compelling subject of infidelity, detailing experiences of women on both sides of these highly charged and emotional situations.

Author Info

Anthology editor Victoria Zackheim is the author of a novel, The Bone Weaver, and editor of For Keeps (Avalon/Seal), an anthology to be released in December. She teaches creative writing in the UCLA Writers Program. She developed and wrote the documentary film Suffer the Children: Frances Kelsey and the Story of Thalidomide (Rosemarie Reed Productions).

Pro Reviews

"The Other Woman may be a topic of eternally prurient interest, but the main attraction of this strong collection of 21 personal essays is the top-drawer writers... it is a candid and truly fascinating look at how men and women love and hurt." -Publishers Weekly

"Invite the bitch to dinner" is one wickedly brash survival strategy in The Other Woman: 21 Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal, edited By Victoria Zackheim. Among the star turns in this unusually frank and furious collection of essays are Pam Houston's "Not Istanbul," a hypothetical journey into an impossibly complicated relationship ("Here's the thing about the other woman. She lives inside your head.") and Connie May Fowler's "The Uterine Blues," a savory bit of rancor from a woman scorned." -O Magazine

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