Everything Is Perfect

By: Kate Nason

Narrated by: 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!

Couldn't stop listening - so beautifully written

I knew this book was about a woman whose husband had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and that it turned her and her family's life upside down.

Amazingly, that all took a back seat to the way Kate tells her story. A story told in a calm and sometimes animated voice of loving her children, processing hurts and trauma, and carving out a life in Portland, Oregon. Once I started listening, I couldn't stop. I brought her with me as I made dinner, gardened, ran and sipped coffee. I already miss her and am wishing her well.

Great Story

I had so many emotions listening to this book. It was relatable on so many levels. I was crying, holding my heart and at the end just wanted to give her a hug.

Interesting side memoir on a presidential scandy

At first I thought the story was fictional. More than the connection to the presidential scandal its a story of finding oneself. I struggled with the narration because of the soothing pace and intonation of Ms. Nason's voice. I realize you can't change that aspect of yourself but I often felt lulled to sleep.

Not so perfect

Interesting book that I honestly wasn’t aware was leading me to be about the Clinton/Luwinski scandal. Ms. Nason has a rough life due to miserable choice in men. Also her choice to do the narration was not a good one since there are professionals that would have been less dramatic in delivering the story. It was hard to stick with it due to her narration.

amazing!

this was an amazing book. I've read it a few times and each time I am amazed

A book for every woman who has been there.

This has been so well-written the emotions that go with betrayal have been described here perfectly.

Loved everything about this one

It got me hooked from the beginning but once I found out who the story was really about, I was enthralled!!! Loved it!!! Highly recommend!!
The narrator was great too.

Everything is Perfect

I've never read a book by Kate Nason. This may be her debut as an author. If so, brave! I wasn't sure what to expect as there were only two reviews, and only one is written.

With the element of truth in the real-life affair of a young woman famously having a liaison with the most important man in the world, you do wonder how much of the other parts of the story are based on the protagonist's personal account.

I found it engaging and challenging to stop listening when I needed to be asleep. This is told entirely from the main character's view. She made it plausible that it's based on her actual life events. A good mother caught in bad marriages. The plot gets exciting once the second husband's secrets begin unwinding. He turns her life inside out, and eventually, you understand how the world's most infamous affair intertwines with the wife and mother, and she can barely keep all of the betrayals from crushing her.

Caution: I've personally never divorced, but I believe that this could be a trigger for wives whose husbands were cunning, deceitful, and ultimately, a betrayal of everything the wife thought she knew of him.