Divorce Goes to Jamaica

“Divorce had pretty much defined everything in my life.” Although it was maybe never quite cool, divorce has now “Lost Its Groove,” according to the New York Times (and statistics back this up: “only 11 percent of college-educated Americans divorce within the first 10 years today, compared with almost 37 percent for the rest of the population”). One thing that has not lost its groove, though, is the divorce memoir.

In her divorce memoir, “In Spite of Everything,” to be published this summer, Ms. Thomas recalls telling her ex-husband many times during their 16-year marriage, “Whatever happens, we’re never going to get divorced.”

“One of the hardest things about divorce today is that you feel like you have to explain or apologize for it,” said Stacy Morrison, author of “Falling Apart in One Piece,” another divorce memoir.

[The] actress … is following up her divorce memoir, “Happens Every Day,” with a book about divorce’s aftermath, “A Year and Six Seconds.”

But divorce may be boomeranging.

“Among my college friends and my closest friends, I’m still the only one who’s divorced. In a funny way, I think I may have turned into the groovy one.”