A Candid Exploration of Modern Marriage
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage is Deborah Eisenberg's intimate and unflinching examination of her long marriage to writer Wallace Shawn. Through a series of interconnected essays and reflections, Eisenberg explores the paradox of sharing a life with someone who remains, in fundamental ways, a stranger. She delves into the quotidian moments and larger philosophical questions that define a partnership—the small rituals, the unspoken understandings, the persistent mysteries of another person's inner life. With characteristic wit and emotional precision, Eisenberg interrogates what it means to truly know another person, how couples navigate difference and distance, and the ways marriage both reveals and obscures identity. The memoir moves between personal anecdote and broader meditation on commitment, desire, and the strange alchemy of building a shared existence with another consciousness. Eisenberg's prose is elegant and probing, offering readers a deeply personal yet universally resonant portrait of marriage as an ongoing negotiation between intimacy and unknowability.
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