Dedication

This book is for my beloved friend, Kerry Doyle—the best of them.

She’s a “good” woman as well as “wife” in all the wonderful, multiple, contradictory, and complex meanings of that word.

It’s also a salute to all the wives and women throughout time who’ve been forced, for whatever reason, to endure; who’ve been abused and neglected and punished for their strengths and their weaknesses.

May your voices be heard as well.