How much honesty does an ‘honest’ marriage really permit a wife? And once you’re no longer a wife, can you really start all over again? The anonymous novel of divorce and open marriage that scandalized New York when it was originally published in 1929, Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife is both captivating and bleak in its portrayal of women in the Jazz Age. Iva Dixit and Joumana Khatib discuss this novel of sex, love, heartache and divorce, and its relevance nearly a century later.