00:00It is time for Banking on Books, and my book is Strangers, a Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden.
00:06First published in January, now in its 12th printing. This is a financial horror story.
00:10Yes, 12th printing, because Belle Burden's husband walked out on her and the kids at the start of
00:14COVID. She had quit her job to raise the kids. Her husband worked and managed her family finances.
00:19That was not a good setup for that situation. And there's also this fascinating overlap with
00:23privilege and status, because she's New York society. There's trust funds involved. There's
00:28withering glares from married couples at the tennis club.
00:31It reminded me of everything Whit Stillman did. Whit Stillman defined the Upper East Side
00:34la-di-da world, and she just absolutely nailed it.
00:38Well, this was a fantastic read, and it's so interesting, because it sparked a lot of conversation
00:43among people, certainly in New York, because she's a New York society woman. And that gets
00:48to what we've done here at Bloomberg Money. The Bloomberg Money team wrote about this book
00:52and how it's sparking all these discussions everywhere about marital finance.
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