Katherine Heiny Books in Order

Eleven stories follow women navigating affairs, marriage, friendship, and conflicting desires. Through awkward encounters and everyday disappointments, Heiny explores the deceptions people practice on their partners and themselves, alongside unexpected moments of tenderness and recognition.

Graham’s exuberant second wife decides to befriend the restrained woman he divorced. As the three spend more time together amid parenting and social complications, Graham questions the choices that shaped his marriage and the possibility of loving such different people.

Jane falls for a man whose past relationships still fill their small Michigan town. A devastating accident draws his ex-wife and coworker into their daily lives, forcing Jane to reconsider what commitment, family, and lasting happiness might mean.

Eleven stories examine love through inconvenient attachments, strained family ties, and unexpected acts of kindness. People confronting ordinary disruptions, from a father’s alarming mistake to an ex-wife’s move, reveal how affection and resentment can occupy the same relationship.