Synopsis
Vivian Brandt built her dating profile to fail. At fifty-three, a year past the divorce that confirmed what she'd long suspected—that she had become invisible—she wanted proof. Instead, her phone erupted. Three men, each half her age, want her attention.
So Vivian does what she's learned to do best: she organizes. One man for heat. One for conversation. One for easy, uncomplicated lightness. For the first time in thirty years, she's writing her own story, on her own terms.
But desire this honest refuses to stay in its compartments. The one she chose for easy is falling in love—for real. Her ex-husband is circling again, certain she'll come back to the life she's supposed to want. And her daughter is asking the question Vivian has never let herself answer.
Because the truth isn't that the world made her invisible. She hid herself. And the desire burning through everything she's carefully built won't let her stay hidden anymore.
Out Loud is a rich, sensual, and emotionally precise novel about what happens when a woman stops editing herself—and finally speaks.
