The Fixed Stars: A Memoir by Molly Wizenberg

From Goodreads

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.

My thoughts

I gave this a 3 stars or 6/10.

I found this book on BorrowBox the digital lending side of my local Library.

This was an interesting read in some ways, yet in other ways I found it a little self indulgent if those are the right words.  Saying that though, it isn't meant in anyway disrespectful or negative as this book might help others that are going through similar situations in their own life and are questioning their sexuality in relation to others.  

Molly Wizenberg has been monogamous for 36 years of her life, but one day a chance meeting while serving on a jury her head is turned and she finds herself attracted to a female attorney.  This chance meeting has far reaching consequences on her relationships and life choices.  This book details in a very open and frank way how she deals with life and all it throws at her moving forward following this meeting.

This was a quick read that I devoured page after page in order to find out how Molly and her husband learned how to deal and move on in life with her newly found attraction to members of the same sex.