Rowan Beaird’s debut, The Divorcées, set at one of Reno’s famed divorce ranches, is timelier than ever. Here, an interview with the author.
for her bachelorette party and visited the Neon Museum, where history is told through defunct building signs dating back to the 1930s. During the tour, Beaird’s guide offhandedly remarked, “Everybody knows Las Vegas is where you get married and Reno is where you get divorced.”in the United States.
You intentionally chose a ranch for wealthy women as your setting rather than one for middle-class women or following a woman who moves to Reno and has to find work to forge her future. What was the thinking there? It was really important for the main character to have the radical idea that she could leave the marriage simply because she didn’t feel seen or known or loved by her husband. That is something that now we take for granted but at the time was socially unacceptable: the idea that you would leave a secure household where you were taken care of.
How do you view the current way our country handles women behaving in ways society deems unsavory? What’s different from the 1950s?
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