The Wife App
A Novel
Published on 27. June 2023
368 pages
978-1-9821-5883-5 (ISBN)
Description
Because every wife deserves a happy ending.
Three best friends decide they're finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They're ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process in this "fresh, funny, empowering, and totally satisfying" (Judy Blume) novel about divorce, modern marriage, and female friendship.
Lauren, mother of twins, wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husband's phone and stumbles on a dirty secret that explodes her marriage. Madeline has it all?a penthouse apartment, a perfect daughter, and no-strings-attached romps with handsome men. But when she learns she might lose her child to her ex in England, it stirs up a decades-old personal tragedy. Sophie, with too much FOMO and never enough money, obsesses over her ex-husband's Family 2.0?all while keeping her true desires hidden, even from herself.
It starts as a joke during a tipsy night out, as Lauren, Madeline, and Sophie rail against everything wives do for free. Let's build an app that monetizes the mental load. And maybe revenge on our exes in the process. Soon, the Wife App is born, and before long, it's the fastest growing startup in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren, Madeline, or Sophie could have expected. Carolyn Mackler marks her debut into adult fiction with a roller-coaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms.
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Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book); The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I; Infinite in Between; and Love and Other Four-Letter Words; and the middle grade novel, Best Friend Next Door. Carolyn's award-winning books have appeared on bestseller lists and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. The Wife App is her first adult novel.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Lauren
- One Year Before
- 1. Lauren
- Nine Months Later
- 2. Lauren
- 3. Madeline
- 4. Sophie
- 5. Lauren
- 6. Madeline
- 7. Sophie
- 8. Lauren
- 9. Madeline
- 10. Sophie
- 11. Lauren
- 12. Madeline
- 13. Sophie
- 14. Lauren
- 15. Madeline
- 16. Sophie
- 17. Lauren
- 18. Madeline
- 19. Sophie
- 20. Lauren
- 21. Madeline
- 22. Sophie
- 23. Lauren
- 24. Madeline
- 25. Sophie
- 26. Lauren
- 27. Madeline
- 28. Sophie
- 29. Lauren
- 30. Madeline
- 31. Sophie
- 32. Lauren
- 33. Madeline
- 34. Sophie
- 35. Lauren
- 36. Madeline
- 37. Sophie
- 38. Lauren
- 39. Madeline
- 40. Sophie
- 41. Lauren
- 42. Madeline
- 43. Sophie
- 44. Lauren
- 45. Madeline
- 46. Sophie
- 47. Lauren
- 48. Madeline
- 49. Sophie
- 50. Lauren
- 51. Madeline
- 52. Sophie
- 53. Lauren
- Two Months Later
- 54. Lauren
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
