Palimony
Steven Grossman
With the divorce rate in the U.S. estimated as high as 50 percent, it’s pretty clear that the road to happily ever after is not without its detours. A host of readers will readily relate to this witty social satire of a culture that perpetuates personal conflict in the quest for billable hours.
Ross has recently forfeited his upscale suburban lifestyle, courtesy of a divorce gone nuclear. He pines for his former life, now lost to alimony payments. His only remaining taste of luxury comes from of his expense account while traveling for business.
On one of those trips, he meets Dave, a former Pharma VP, with his own alimony woes. Divorced from his attorney wife, and fired by his father-in-law, he too, must change his paradigm to stay afloat.
During a booze-soaked, flight to the coast, they hatch a plan that to solve both their problems: Woo the other’s ex with the goal of "cohabitation", the legal standard for eliminating alimony. With a laundry list of inside information and tons of coaching, getting to “shacking-up” seems entirely plausible.
The plan takes an unexpected detour when Ross falls for his intended target. Worse, Ross's snooping ex gets wind of his amour and would love to derail his whirlwind romance and ruin his happiness. Uncovering the truth about his relationship, or the one he has foisted upon her, will spell his doom. With true love and tens of thousands of dollars at stake, Ross can’t afford to let that happen.
My debut novel, Palimony is set in Charlotte, NC, a “New South” city which finds itself on a cultural fault line, where changing values come to a standoff with its Bible belt roots. A cast of characters in search of love will embark on a journey from revenge to redemption and ultimately, reconciliation.
Fiction with a dose of dark comedy, it’s a "Bonfire of the Vanities" take on modern marriage and divorce that would make a Kardashian proud while evoking “Strangers on a Train” with a vastly different end game.
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