A NOVEL BY LILAC WASSERMAN
Behind Beautiful Lives
Lie Hidden Prisons.
Set in the glamorous world of New York’s Upper East Side, Caged Wives reveals the hidden realities behind beautiful lives.
The story
Four Women.
Four Different Cages.
Every Thursday, four women gather around the same mahjong table in one of Manhattan’s most exclusive private clubs. It is the one place where they can tell one another the truth.
To the outside world, they have everything: loving husbands, beautiful children, stunning homes, and lives of privilege. Behind the designer clothes and dinner parties, each is trapped in a different kind of cage.
At the heart of the story
Themes in Caged Wives
Friendship
Four women tell each other the truths they cannot share elsewhere.
Financial control
Power and money are used to silence, isolate, and manipulate.
Survival
Secrets surface as carefully maintained lives begin to unravel.
Freedom
What does it take to break free?
— Lilac Wasserman
About the author
Lilac Wasserman
Lilac Wasserman is a New York City-based writer, filmmaker, and mother of four. Drawing on years of firsthand observation inside the city’s most rarefied social circles, she writes about the quiet, invisible constraints that can exist within even the most enviable marriages.
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A novel by Lilac Wasserman about friendship, survival, and the invisible chains of financial control.