{"title":"Belle Burden","description":"\u003cp\u003eBelle Burden's writing invites readers into intimate explorations of personal history and human experience. Her works blend memoir with a keen eye for detail, revealing the complexities of identity and memory with subtle grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn collections such as \u003cem\u003eStrangers\u003c\/em\u003e, Burden delves into the nuanced relationships that define us, making her stories resonate with emotional honesty and thoughtful reflection. 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The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me. And then he didn’t.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognised. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStrangers,\u003c\/em\u003e Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. 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