Not your Mother's mother

Okay, Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother almost needs to be read in tandem with her earlier "Hannah's Gift" about the brief life of her daughter who died as a toddler. After the death of her daughter, the author's marriage begins to fall apart. So, she takes a retreat where she meets a man who becomes her second husband. They have a torrid affair while on this retreat and she comes home to tell her husband that she doesn't love him any longer and wants a divorce.
She also chooses to leave, one or two children, with her husband. She makes a pretty clean break of it too. However, she eventually decides that she needs to be in her childrens' lives.
It is rather disturbing, but it also points on the very gendered and heteronormative nature of modern American marriage and motherhood. I'll give the author big props for candor.
Czar