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What if the break wasn't the end-but the opening? When Mathew Moslow's long-term relationship fractures, it happens in a way that feels both inevitable and impossible. No explosive betrayal. No winners or villains. Just the long, slow disintegration of a life lovingly built-and no longer livable. What follows is not neat grief, not clean healing, but the weird, winding work of becoming someone new ""A Novel Divorce"" picks up where most breakup stories end: in the ruin, the reckoning, and eventually, the rebirth. With vivid prose, biting humor, and emotional clarity that never flatters easy redemption, Moslow chronicles a post-divorce landscape shaped by psychedelic preparation, queer connection, family dysfunction, sexual fluidity, spiritual disorientation, and the wild act of learning how to love again-without defaulting to the old blueprints. Set in the lush backdrops of Costa Rica, Orlando, and Jamaica-but told largely from the raw interior-a journey unfolds. Through plant medicine, psilocybin therapy, Enneagram deep-dives, friendship, failure, and heartbreak layered on heartbreak, Moslow begins to reassemble his life using tools both ancient and painfully contemporary: ritual, rage, tenderness, playlists, texts unsent, memories unearthed, identities revisited, and the terrible/gorgeous realization that even clarity doesn't make pain disappear. This is a memoir about what love leaves behind-and what a person must uncover when they stop performing the answers they once believed in. Moslow unpacks identity the way a person unpacks a box they forgot they sealed: slowly, confusedly, and with small bursts of recognition-and horror. Bits of queerness held back too long. Desire misnamed. Generational harm inherited invisibly but lived out loud. And still, moment by moment, a deepening comes. A person forms. ""A Novel Divorce"" doesn't just document heartbreak. It frames it as a sacred turning point: not punitive, not performative, not fixed. Just seeded with possibility. In letting go of the traditional arc of romance, Moslow discovers a terrifying but redemptive form of connection-one that doesn't hinge on permanence but on presence. He doesn't hide the mess. He writes it into ritual. What emerges is a deeply human story for people who've outgrown one version of themselves, or one story of love, and aren't sure what comes next. For those who've been broken open but not broken down. For anyone who's searched for the divine in a guidance counselor's chair, a steamy text thread, a rented jungle casita, or a grief group that turned into something like family. ""A Novel Divorce"" is not about perfection, nor recovery in its Instagrammed form. It is a blueprint for the honest, adult kind of becoming: layered, awkward, brave, and true. For the divorced, the disoriented, the healing, the haunted, and the hopeful-this book is your mirror.

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Mathew Moslow writes from the in-between: heartbreak and healing, masculinity and vulnerability, and tradition and undoing. He is the author of the memoir ""A Novel Divorce"" and the forthcoming novel ""Beyond the Reach of Justice""-two works that chase emotional clarity through the careful, difficult practice of telling the truth. Born in Florida and raised in Jamaica, Mathew grew up between cultural codes, expectations, languages, and emotional registers. Today, he exists-literally and philosophically-in the heat of Florida, where he balances clinical nursing rotation with long-form writing, late-night self-excavation, and an insistent desire to understand what breaks us and what puts us back together. Officially, he is a student in a demanding pre-licensure nursing program. Unofficially, he redesigns how knowledge gets absorbed. He creates audio-responsive learning tools, tests information flows, and rewrites complex systems into human terms. For Mathew, research is not just about evidence-it's about connection. Everything-grief, medicine, love, burnout-is a puzzle worth mapping with care. When Mathew isn't writing or working in clinical settings, you'll find him reading 19 tabs at once, walking his dog with a podcast in one ear and a playlist in the other, or reorganizing a room not because it needs it-but because something internal shifted. He is a minimalist by design, a maximalist with playlists, and someone who finds clarity in frameworks like the Enneagram not as tools for branding ourselves, but as windows for compassion and change. He's drawn to the layered feel of things-books, people, spaces, feelings-and writes with that same attention. Writing, for him, has always been a map back to the self. His stories are invitations not just to witness what he's endured or confessed, but to explore what lives in the gaps between who we were and who we want to be next. His voice is spare and tender, literary but accessible, with an eye for the moment beneath the moment: the buried motive, the echo inside the apology, the joke stacked gently on top of the heartbreak. He doesn't aim for resolution so much as resonance, trusting that meaning forms when a reader can see their reflection in the wreckage, too.

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