published: 2018
pages: not sure. its an ebook / you can also listen to it.
read: 1/29/2019
rating: good quick read / listen to. love her!
book: 11 in 2019
Dear stranger…
A desperate young woman in Southern California sits down to write a letter to a man she’s never met—a choice that will forever change both their lives.
My heart goes out to you, David. Even though I do not know you…
The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here.
Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.
MY THOUGHTS
SHORT VERSION
pretty cool quick read! pretty cool quick listen to if you have amazon prime!
good short story with a pretty dope twist!
LONG VERSION
this one was up for grabs as a free ebook so i went for it AND THEN it was up for grabs for free with the audio so i was like heck yes!!!
the only other TJR book that i have read is TSHOEH and i ABSOLUTELY loved that book. its probably my fave read of 2018. (and now on sale on b&n and amazon! def pick it up. I DID!) so of course i was going to read this if it was free. (tbh, i have yet to read her other books but I'm hoping to make better on that soon!)
this was a suuuper quick listen to. since falling in love with audiobooks this year, i have absolutely loved listening to all sorts of books while at work doing my work. and those that are pretty quick to the point are my fave!
like it states above this story is told only in letters from Carrie to David and vice versa. first its her telling him about the affair and then both of them finding a sense of community (for lack of a better word) in the pain that brought them together.
it starts just as letters and it ends with a pretty huge life changing reveal. (to me anyway...i think if that happened to me id be like oh shit!)
i gotta say, the ending was probably my favorite. mostly because even though i knew it was "impossible" for her, i was surprised that it happened. and I'm wondering what David is going to do.
in this case, I'm not mad at all about the drop off ending although i do wish to know what all the involved parties thought in the end. like imagine "you gon' cheat on me? well guess what motherfucker! SURPRISE" bahaha. lets just say in my ending, Carrie definitely has the last laugh. erm well, the nicer equivalent of that.
anyway, there's not much to say without giving away spoilers so....I'll leave it at this.
thanks for reading!
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Carrie and David write back and forth and eventually they meet in person.
they eventually develop a sort of romantic (revenge comfort sex?) relationship and it ends with Carrie finally having a child. she divorces her bad husbands and moves in with her parents. the father of course is David. the last letter is her telling David that she left homeboy, that she's moved out & back at her parents.
and she thanks him wholeheartedly for her daughter. she also lets him know she does not expect anything from him.
their spouses met idk where and he noticed her first but did nothing. then, they cross paths again and he makes a move. they meet up and hook up for a while and eventually plan to leave their spouses. but ultimately, she calls it off because she cant bear to leave her husband and break up their family.(she gets all this from a penny she sees on the ground.) homeboy gets upset, talks shit, apologizes and tries to win her back but does not succeed.
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