![]() Not only was it an invaluable resource for information on day-to-day life on a divorce ranch, it also set the mood. The images – with their smoky, black-and-white, retro allure – are what brought the time and place alive for me so that I could bring them to life in the novel. Luckily, I discovered The Divorce Seekers, a stunning coffee table volume of photos and memories by a former dude wrangler at the famed Flying M.E. ![]() But generally, the women came alone, frequently bonding to the other woman there, to the ranch staff, and to the land (or doing the opposite – hating all) as they moved toward their new lives.īringing that time period to life, though, was trickier than I’d anticipated, because of exactly what I’d found so thrilling – how little there was out there about the ranches. And occasionally, the women brought a “spare” – the next husband they planned to marry at the wedding chapel right next to the courthouse after getting their divorce. Occasionally, a man would arrive for the six-week stay instead. Occasionally, the women brought their children along. Aided and abetted by the ranch matrons and cowboy “dude wranglers,” the women often underwent what Walter Winchell called a “Reno-vation.” While at the ranch, they would ride horses, go to town, go on a pack trip, hang out together, or ski, but they’d also drink, dance, flirt with cowboys, or even have an affair with one. Often, a stay at one of the ranches also resulted in rebellious behavior in an unfamiliar locale. No story of love is, either.Ī stay at the ranch was sometimes called “The six-week cure,” and such a “cure” was a bold move in a time when divorce carried great shame. Callie will come to see is that no life is ever ordinary. Worse, Aunt Nash is acting bizarrely-hoarding stacks of old photographs, burying a book in the yard, and railing against Kit Covey, a handsome government park ranger who piques Callie’s interest.īut Aunt Nash may prove to be saner than she seems once Callie pulls back the curtain on Tamarosa’s heyday-the 1940s and ’50s, when high-society and Hollywood women ventured to the ranch for quickie divorces and found a unique sisterhood-and uncovers a secret promise Nash made to her true love. Callie flees to Nevada and her Aunt Nash’s Tamarosa Ranch, where she’s shocked to see that the place of so many happy childhood memories is in disrepair. When Callie McBride finds a woman’s phone number written on a scrap of paper her husband has thrown away, she thinks that her marriage is over. “You don’t grow up on a divorce ranch and not learn to take a vow seriously.” From bestselling author Deb Caletti comes a beautiful and profound novel of three women coming to terms with love and marriage-sure to move and delight fans of Kristin Hannah, Liane Moriarty, and Anna Quindlen.
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