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The Book Case

Belle Burden and the Art of Being Vulnerable

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7913 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Belle Burden’s Strangers is not your everyday memoir about divorce.  After three kids, two decades and two homes, her husband was caught having an affair.  When confronted, he walked out, saying that marriage and family were not “for him”. It was not about the other woman nor was it about a long bout with depression, it seemed as if he just woke up and decided to begin anew.  Belle is left to search for answers as she questions her reality-did he ever love us?  Did I make him unhappy?  How can I move on with such a mysterious and traumatic narrative?  Written with humor, care and love, this book really is a memoir of marriage and the mysteries often associated with a broken home.  Trust us.  Read it.  Then tune into to our conversation with this amazing author and amazing woman. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: ⁠https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello bookcases. It is February 12th, which means hope you're getting things ready for your sweetheart, or you're ready to treat yourself because you don't need to have somebody on Valentine's Day.

0:17.6

And so I am Kate. I'm half of the Kate and Charlie Charlie that makes the bookcase.

0:21.4

And I'm waving even though you can't see it. And he is. Charlie Gibson, the Turley part of Kate and Charlie.

0:26.7

We do welcome you. Valentine's Day is coming up. We hope you bought a lot of those sort of little candy hearts that taste like cardboard.

0:35.2

They taste like they taste like flavored tongues. Right. Exactly. They awful. Yeah. But they're sort of a Valentine's Day. I wonder, if you think Tums, by the way, makes those? Do you think they're just like... Do you think that, like, we've been giving each other ant acid for years and years and years with sweet messages on them? Like like be mine, but also belch it out.

0:56.4

I guess belch it out doesn't fit as well on the candy hearts as they should.

1:02.2

But as I say, you can also treat yourself.

1:04.9

As a matter of fact, we're doing another memoir this week.

1:08.7

Before you move on.

1:10.3

Yes, yes.

1:10.8

I love the idea of the message on the little heart being ant acid.

1:16.7

I'm telling you, like, well, you know, let's belch it out together.

1:20.8

You know, I think it's a couple's activity.

1:23.6

Anyway, we'll leave that where it is.

1:25.1

We're doing another memoir this week, which, you know, I actually should throw it to you because you really read it first.

1:32.4

But Bell Burdened Strangers, Memoir of a Marriage.

1:35.8

We missed the boat on this one, and I apologize for that.

1:39.0

It's only been out for a few weeks, but I knew about it in advance.

1:42.7

I saw that it was the story of a of a marriage that

1:46.0

broke apart, that the husband had an affair, and he walked out. And I thought, well, that's sort of

1:52.1

a common story. But this is so much more. Strangers is the name of the book, Bell Burton, B-E-L-L-E. Burton is the

1:59.5

author. And you are D-E-N. B-R-D-E-E, Burton is the author. B-R-D-E-N.

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