Rowan Beaird’s historical novel, ‘The Divorcées,’ follows women who head to Nevada during the 1950s so they can ditch their husbands.
Glamour and divorce don’t usually go hand in hand, but in 1950s America, a stint in Reno, Nev., could make the process far more elegant for women. Also, more adventurous, boozier and, most importantly, faster.
Lois did, but she’s miserable and decides she can’t grin and bear it the way many other women do. Lois does not want children, so there’s little to distract her from the fact that she feels no love in her marriage. At Golden Yarrow, she describes the relief she felt after discovering she wasn’t pregnant after a scare: “I realized that I had to leave.
What puts an end to the self-hate is the arrival of Greer Lang. The mysterious — and surely moneyed — Greer is from Manhattan, Upper East Side, of course. Greer hides out in her room at first, and when she emerges, it’s with a big bruise on her face and a stylish men’s shirt wrapped around her thin frame, her pain, and iron rod of a backbone, evident. The other women are ready to be granted confidante status, but the somebody she chooses is Lois.
Discussing their futures, Greer sighs and says, “Well, I’ve hoped for more for all of them.” But she knows — they all know — that for most what awaits is a second marriage, and fast. It’s a punch to the gut, as were the 1950s in general for feminism, and the repression is another crackle in the atmosphere.
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