Days of Our Lives

By Joan Aleshire

Book Overview

Day of Our Lives is equal parts social history and memoir documenting the unraveling of a marriage against the backdrop of the shifting social mores of 1960s and '70s America. Joan Aleshire's speaker, a young wife, enters marriage gratefully, even eagerly, believing it to be "a long table / with friends crowding in, red wine / in tumblers." Motherhood follows, but so do infidelities and reconciliation and ultimately divorce. With each hard knock, the speaker sheds a little more of her innocence as she gains awareness of her power as both a woman and a writer: "Coming home / late from a festival for women / where I'd said all the things / the audience liked, I slipped / into bed so flush with triumph / my husband recoiled from the heat."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945588365
• ISBN13: 9781945588365
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"