Barely digestible

Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Imagine Monica from Friends reaching her late 30s and neurotically not wanting to free herself from an abusive relationship: wife leaves husband when he starts an affair, he persuades her to come home with promises of fidelity, but continues the affair behind her back.

Early 80s cooking, middle-class politeness, second-wave feminism, and the central character rarely meaning what she says or saying what she means. Of its time.