After Strangers
Heartbreak by Florence Williams
If Strangers hooked you with its jeweler's-loupe precision on divorce—clean prose, no hysteria, just the high-stakes mechanics of abandonment—Heartbreak delivers that same forensic energy turned inward. Williams investigates her body's revolt after separation with lab reports and field notes, tracking cortisol spikes and immune collapse the way Burden tracked legal filings, and the access to research protocols and therapeutic gatekeepers feels like the same behind-closed-doors privilege that made Strangers compulsively readable.