While attending her group therapy session, she is robbed at gunpoint by a thief who has followed her from the subway. Rachel leaves Mark and takes the children to New York. While seven months pregnant with their second child, Rachel discovers that Mark discovers that Mark is having an affair with their mutual friend Thelma Rice, “ a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm“. Rachel Samsat, a successful food writer, chronicles her disastrous first marriage to a man who kept hamsters, her loving but difficult relationship with her alcoholic show-business parents, and meeting her second husband Mark, a Washington Post columnist with whom she has a child. W hat it’s about: New York, the early 1980s. In which I review Heartburn, Nora Ephron’s autobiographical 1983 novel about a New York food writer who discovers midway through her second pregnancy that her husband is having an affair.
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