"A deeply affecting narrative rendered in a suprising collective voice, Our Kind examines the lives of a group of former country-club housewives, now alone, independent, and looking to break the rules. In a series of linked stories, Walbert conveys with humor and pathos all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of this second-sex generation raised to expect no alternative to marriage and motherhood. Now divorced, their children flown the coop, these ten suburban women are finally free"--Publisher description