The other woman : twenty-one wives, lovers, and others talk openly about sex, deception, love, and betrayal / edited by Victoria Zackheim

Not Istanbul / Pam Houston -- . Palm Springs / Mary Jo Eustace -- . Hail the status quo / Susan Montez -- . Iowa was never like this / Jane Smiley -- . Once upon a time it took three / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- . The mistress / Dani Shapiro -- . The loves of his life / Katharine Weber -- . Invite the bitch to dinner / Ellen Sussman -- . Cassandra / Caroline Leavitt -- . The uterine blues : why some women can't stop fucking over their sisters / Connie May Fowler -- . Ruby / Gayle Brandeis -- . In praise of married men / Susan Cheever -- . Sheba / Sherry Glaser -- . The other other woman / Nancy Weber -- . Phantom wife / Victoria Zackheim -- . The man with the big hands / Maxinne Rhea Leighton -- . A hand on the neck / Laurie Stone -- . Seized / Kathleen Archambeau -- . My life as a muse / Aviva Layton -- . The lost city of love / Diana Abu-Jaber -- . Running the smalls through / Lynn Freed.

From some of Americas top writers comes a groundbreaking, compulsively readable anthology about that most taboo of subjects--women who steal husbands and boyfriends from other women, and the consequences for those left behind.