Fixed Stars

From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships

At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.

Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she, she wondered, if something at her very core could change so radically? The Fixed Stars is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit, and learning instead who we really are.

De la un memorialist bestseller, o poveste atenta si provocatoare despre schimbarea identitatii, sexualitatea complexa si relatiile de familie durabile La varsta de 36 de ani, in timp ce lucra in juriu, autorul Molly Wizenberg s-a trezit atras de un avocat de sex feminin pe care abia il cunostea. Casatorit cu un barbat de aproape un deceniu si mama cu un copil mic, Wizenberg a incercat sa se intoarca la viata ei asa cum o stia ea, dar ceva in interiorul ei s-a schimbat iremediabil.