Everything Is Perfect

De: Kate Nason

Narrado por: Kate Nason

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, the unimaginable happened. Kate woke to the news that one of her husband’s “other women” was involved with an American president. It was January of 1998. The press surrounded her home, clamoring for details and transformed Kate’s private heartbreak into public humiliation.

Nason’s memoir uncovers the little-known side of a well-known story, unveiling a cautionary tale about the ways we deceive ourselves when we allow ourselves to be deceived by those we love. Everything Is Perfect is an intimate reveal of infidelity, gaslighting, and the silent wife at the press conference. Nason explores the roles women inhabit throughout their lives, how they carry trauma, and the lengths they’ll go to protect their children and save themselves. It's a fierce and often funny self-reckoning, a meditation on learning to trust one’s intuition, and a case study of how one woman undid a bad “I do.”

In the tradition of Lisa Brennan Jobs' Small Fry or Chanel Miller’s Know My Name, Everything Is Perfect is a beautifully written, deeply personal, unsparing self-portrait that goes deeper than the familiar news story within.

©2021 Kate Nason (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.

Powerful story, beautifully told

From the start, I was impressed by the sensitivity, care and complex moral discernment Kate Nason brought to this explosive story. The most private aspects of Kate's life — the kind of betrayal one can't help but want to hide — became entangled with the biggest public scandal of the decade, something no breathing American adult would fail to have an opinion about, then or now. But today, listening to the final product, I realize the story was actually much bigger than I realized. The context Kate creates by fleshing out her life in the decade prior to the "breaking news" give us reader a different way into the story, inviting us to think about the interaction of choice and fate, of good luck and bad, and how the experiences we have make us the people we are.

Wow, holy cow!

This was a great listen. I really enjoy listening to true stories. Not boring at all! Who's life is 100% exciting?! Hers was a nightmare for so many years. So brave of her to tell her story!

A lovely honest inspiring read

There were many things in this book that touched me. It’s not always the famous who are interesting. I found echoes of my own experiences here and loved the author’s evolution through hers. Rumi and Hafiz were well and uniquely used, and I appreciated how she cultivated a deep relationship with Mary. Brava!

A Must Listen

To say that Kate Nason's memoir is the story of how a woman survived her husband's infidelity is like saying plants need water. That is obvious. But there is so, so, so much more. This is the story of how a woman learns to trust herself. How she learns to use whatever means (for Kate it's the Mother Mary and the poet Rumi, for me, for you, it will be something different) to look deeply at her own misfortunes, to grow from them, to point fingers only where fingers should be pointed and to offer forgiveness where forgiveness is due. Kate could have made this about a famous mistress, but by not doing so she rises above the tell-alls who seem to blame for fame. Her self insight, humor, expressions of love to her children and her friends are beautifully rendered in the words and in the voice. This memoir is a must listen for anyone who has ever doubted themselves, for any budding memoirist (that's me) and for anyone who simply wants to hear a good story.

Beautiful Story, Amazing Narration

I thought this was a fiction novel when I downloaded. When I listened to the epilogue, jaw wide open, I couldn’t wait to hear this story.

I was NOT disappointed!