27
March
2026
Women's Reading Retreat
Join us in Windham, NY for a meaningful escape. East retreat centers on a new, trending novel or memoir, author talks, and activities like forest bathing, mushroom picking, meditation under the stars, and vineyard hopping.
The featured book for the March retreat is Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden.
It was a love story that began and ended just as suddenly. In March 2020, as Belle Burden sheltered with her family on Martha’s Vineyard, her husband of twenty years unexpectedly announced he was leaving, transforming overnight from steady partner to stranger.
In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage in search of missed signs, confronting both betrayal and the lessons she absorbed about how women are expected to endure it. With unflinching honesty, she traces her transformation from the compliant “Belle the Good” to a braver woman determined to use her voice—offering a deeply moving memoir about heartbreak, resilience, and reclaiming love.
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Burden’s searing, probing memoir explores . . . what she learned about intimacy and her own spirit.”—People
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