The media paints divorcées as broken, bitter, and swilling Pinot by the gallon. Lyz Lenz is here to flip that narrative—hard.
After her twelve-year marriage imploded, Lenz didn’t collapse. She got loud. In This American Ex-Wife, the New York Times bestselling journalist unpacks the messy truth about marriage, power, and gender in America—and makes a fierce, funny case for why divorce isn’t failure. It’s freedom.
Blending memoir with cultural criticism, sociology, and searing wit, Lenz explores how marriage still traps women in outdated roles, and how walking away can be the most radical act of all.
Forget shame. Forget silence. This is a battle cry for collective female refusal, for joy after heartbreak, and for remaking life on your own terms.
