A Novel by Lilac Wasserman
CAGED WIVES
Friendship. Survival. And the invisible chains of financial control.
Set in the glamorous world of New York’s Upper East Side, Caged Wives looks beneath beautiful homes, privileged lives, and carefully maintained marriages to reveal what can remain hidden in plain sight.
Book overview
Behind Beautiful Lives Lie Hidden Prisons.
In the glamorous world of New York’s Upper East Side, four women meet every Thursday around the same mahjong table inside one of Manhattan’s most exclusive private clubs. To the world outside, they have it all — loving husbands, beautiful children, stunning homes, and a life of privilege. But behind the designer clothes and dinner parties, each is trapped in a different kind of cage.
Caged Wives is a gripping, emotional novel about friendship, survival, and the invisible chains of financial control — how power and money are used to silence, isolate, and manipulate four unforgettable women.
Week after week, over tiles and wine, they begin saying aloud what they have never dared say before. Secrets surface. The lies come apart. And what one of them uncovers forces the others to question everything they believed about their marriages — and about each other.
Raw, honest, and deeply human, it sheds light on an abuse that usually goes unseen, and asks: what does it take to break free?
Book overview
Fiction
6 × 9 inches
145 pages
A prologue and six parts
The world of the novel
Where appearances matter.
Beautiful homes, loving families and the outward signs of privilege conceal private restrictions. At their Thursday mahjong table, four women find a place to speak honestly about their marriages.
The novel follows their friendship as they begin to confront the invisible chains of financial control.
— From Caged Wives
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A novel by Lilac Wasserman about friendship, survival, and the invisible chains of financial control.