Welcome to the Ex-Wife’s New York

An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today.

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“The ‘young single woman in the city’ genre feels almost as old as cities . . . But modern New York is where the genre has reached its apotheosis, from Edith Wharton to Beyoncé and beyond. In this mostly upward and exuberant history, the writer Ursula Parrott has been largely (and sadly) omitted . . . [Let us] revel in the surprising freshness of its prose . . . The other thing that glows in Ex-Wife, and the biography of its author, is New York City: the lights, the fights, the freedoms, constraints and terrible costs.”

—Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times