The Fixed Stars: A Memoir

At thirty-six, while serving on a jury, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she barely knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, she attempted to return to her previous life, but something fundamental had shifted. She discovered that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or logical as we expect. Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable, unchanging part of identity. Her own experience proved more complicated. She navigated separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and developing a new understanding of love. The Fixed Stars examines questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family relationships.