Bored of the Rings

I want to be completely honest in a way I could not be if I had stayed. Telling the truth is often a demolition project.— Lyz Lenz

The Monday that Lyz Lenz knew her marriage was over, she returned home late from a research trip to find the kitchen floor littered with garbage. Her husband had put a trash bag on the breakfast nook bench; it had fallen and opened, depositing a trail of orange peels, Goldfish crackers, wet napkins, and old cheese chunks. For Lenz, this carelessness was not a minor infraction in the history of a twelve-year marriage but the ultimate manifestation of its dysfunction. She had long felt her relationship was based on an unfair division of labour. Now, worn out from caring for small children, she decided to call it quits. The act of leaving inspired a book that taps into so many potent pop feminism tropes. “I want to tell you that breaking is our power,” the author based in Cedar...