THE DIVORCE PAPERS (Susan Rieger)

If you've ever read an epistolary novel you might understand what attracted me to this book.  I wasn't sure about the subject matter - divorce - or the characters, since we never really meet them.  Rieger's novel is written entirely in a series of emails, interoffice memos, letters, cards, and legal statutes.  It is set in the fictional state of Narraganset (obviously located in New England), where young, single litigator Sophie Dielhl ends up with her first divorce case.  The reader's only insight into the lives of the characters is through their communications, formal and informal, with each other, and it makes for an intriguing novel.  Reiger is a former Dean at Yale and she is also the mother of Maggie Pouncey, author of Perfect Reader.  If you are looking for something different in terms of style, I would recommend this novel!