Kate Hamilton didn’t set out to dismantle her marriage. She set out to survive it.
In this blistering memoir, Hamilton traces her path from loving wife to gaslit shell, laying bare the impossible choices women are asked to make to preserve the illusion of a happy home. From submitting to unwanted sex to chasing intimacy through affairs and swinging, she tried everything to hold her family together—until she realized doing so was tearing her apart.
Braiding personal narrative with sharp cultural critique, Mad Wife exposes the misogyny embedded in marriage, and the quiet violence women endure to protect others from discomfort.
For readers of Know My Name and The Argonauts, this is an unflinching, necessary reckoning with autonomy, motherhood, and the myth of marital bliss.
