Hurricane Lessons : A Memoir

When Katrina, a 46-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband, Charles, suggests they open up their 20+ year marriage, which appears to be a reasonable solution to their dilemma. But when Charles and Katrina have different ideas of what an open marriage should look like and how they should navigate their relationships both together and individually, the cracks in their white-picket-fence life are hit with a hurricane-force fury.

Lies. Threats. Abuse. Gaslighting. An involuntary psych ward commitment. Can their marriage survive so many betrayals? Should it?

Hurricane Lessons is for everyone who realizes it is never too late—even in a world that insists you adhere to cultural norms and expectations—to be authentically, unapologetically who you were born to be.