The Memoir Nobody Expected: Belle Burden Speaks Out With 'Strangers'

Belle Burden's Postmortem of a Marriage

Belle Burden with her ex-husband in 2008. By Joanne Kaufman When the coronavirus shut down New York City in March of 2020, Belle Burden, her husband—a lawyer turned financier—and two of their three children left their apartment in Lower Manhattan and decamped for the wide-open spaces of Martha’s Vineyard, where they owned a vacation home.The island was firmly in the grip of winter and pandemic fears, but inside the family’s house, all seemed saf…

The Memoir Nobody Expected: Belle Burden Speaks Out With 'Strangers'

Burden’s book, Strangers, lays bare the end of her marriage. Here, she and her mother, Amanda Burden, the daughter of the legendary Babe Paley, ponder the types of bonds that are unbreakable.