Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know-everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. “But it can be a burden, too.The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. “It’s better to be the lucky one, of course,” she writes. Lippman writes that she had a reputation in her birth family as the golden child on whom fortune smiled. “I am literally,” she writes, “the last Lippman standing.”Īs challenging as were the practicalities of caring for two family members in declining health, the emotional toll was worse. She’s a member of the sandwich generationīecause Lippman’s only sibling is incapacitated and their father is dead, when her 91-year-old mother fell, was hospitalized, and suddenly had to relocate from Delaware to Baltimore, it fell to the author to manage her mother’s care. “The joking, over-dressed selfies I post to Twitter are usually outfits I’ve put together for my sister’s delectation,” Lippman writes. Lippman’s Twitter followers have become accustomed to periodic photos of the tall, blond novelist modeling new looks. Trust me, it’s one of the rare things we can control.”īecause her sister has had a lifelong love of fashion, the author dresses up for her. That’s why I don’t understand why people talk about falling in and out of love, as if it’s something they don’t control. “Almost six months into our separation,” she writes, “I realized there was no hope for our marriage and I chose to stop loving him. Both are free to explore new relationships.
He wrote that he loved me but was no longer in love with me.” Reconciliation seems unlikelyĪccording to a search of Maryland court records, neither Lippman nor Simon appears to have filed for divorce.ĭespite that, Lippman writes, their marriage truly is over. But in this case he was writing me a good-bye letter, which he gave me five days later, after announcing his decision to leave our marriage. “I was used to him working furiously, all the time. “My soon-to-be-ex worked furiously on his laptop for most of the eight-hour trip” on the flight home Lippman writes.
In February 2020, the couple took a disastrous trip to Paris to celebrate Lippman’s 61st birthday. Lippman writes that she tried to separate from Simon in 2019 but that he talked her out of it.
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