No-Fault: The Latest Divorce Memoir Not Worth Your Read
May 12, 2025
Mainstream publishers have released a spate of divorce memoirs this year, among them Haley Mlotek’s No-Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce. As an advocate for abolishing our nation’s unconstitutional no-fault divorce laws, the title intrigued me. But the book was nearly unreadable. Even nicely crafted sentences don’t lead anywhere.
It’s called a memoir, but it’s not even a story; the author admits that. It’s not self-help either — there are no remedies. Snippets of what amount to little more than diary entries haphazardly veer off to random musings about books, movies, and television shows. Some sections aim to examine marriage and divorce through historical and cultural lenses, but that approach disappoints too, evidenced by the hodgepodge of cherry-picked facts.
