About the Book:

Forged in divorce hell.

In this compelling and brutally honest memoir Leo Averbach transports you right into the cauldron of marital disintegration. Written as a journal in real time, it interweaves the writer's daily ordeal and the couple's ongoing travails with the insights and experience of psychotherapy.

The book chronicles Averbach’s struggle to cope with the emotional turmoil caused by his wife's betrayal and what it meant for their family. His first-person narrative, which is confessional and deeply reflective, divulges all in describing the acrimony, the fluctuations of mood and circumstance as well as the pain of the breakup. Surprisingly, what seemed initially like a tale of anguish and despair ultimately became a transformative episode for the writer, leading to a new life.

Break Up is an unusual divorce memoir. Divorce is its prime concern but what elevates this from a personal account of a common tale into a story with wider significance is the upheaval surrounding the breakup. The storm generated Averbach's impassioned soul-searching, forced him into a process of change, and drove him to seek a resolution. As a series of entries taken directly from the author's diary/journal it is doubly unusual.

This book tells you what breakup can feel like and a lot more.