Warm, funny, and deeply satisfying women's fiction — set in the places summer was made for.
The Way I've Heard It Should Be
From the outside, their lives look perfect. But perfect is just a word for what no one's willing to say out loud.
In an exclusive Manhattan suburb of manicured lawns, oversized bank accounts, and beautiful people, four women are living lives that look enviable from every angle. The problem is, none of them actually want the lives they have.
A restless wife who has everything she was told to want — and can't figure out why it feels so empty.
A woman searching for something she can't name, convinced the grass is greener somewhere just out of reach.
A friend whose carefully maintained surface is hiding cracks that are spreading faster than she can repair them.
A teenager watching the adults around her with clear eyes, understanding more about their lives than any of them realize.
As each woman reaches for something different — something more, something else, something better — they set off a spiral of choices that puts everything they love most at risk.
Because sometimes the life you have is the one you should have wanted all along.
The Way I've Heard It Should Be is a sharp, warmhearted novel about friendship, ambition, and the dangerous myth that someone else's life is better than your own.