Atlanta Magazine
Anatomy of a Divorce
An accomplished author’s singularly eloquent account of the excruciating pain of divorce from which he has surfaced as if from death by drowning with considerable insights toward human caring.
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Divorce has many witnesses, many victims. It is a lurid duet that entices observers to the dance; the
pas de deux expands, flowers into a monstrous choreography and draws in friends, children and relatives. Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. Two people declare war on each other, and their screams and tears and days of withdrawal infect their entire world with the bacilli of their pain. There are no clean divorces. Divorces should be conducted in abattoirs, surgical wards, blood banks or funeral homes. The greatest fury comes from the wound where love once issued forth.