BECA SALMON
Divorce comes for many of us. Sometimes after years of quiet resignation or escalating fights. Sometimes after love slowly slips away. And sometimes, it’s a trainwreck. From the rubble, Beca Salmon shares a memoir of her unwanted divorce, a love letter to loss, and a fierce reckoning of how she was blindsided by the end of her 17-year marriage.
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Set against a year of dark revelations-cheating, lying, and stealing-this book braids the raw, intimate details of a dissolving relationship with a deeper examination of the chaotic rhythm of the victim-perpetrator cycle. This dance is a tired paradigm used to create blame and hold people captive to harm. Those of us who carry a personal legacy of childhood abuse are offered two options as adults: be a victim or victimize others. The Third Option asks: What if there's another way?
ABOUT
Beca Salmon is an oncology nurse practitioner, a writer, a yoga teacher, and a world traveler living in Montreal. The pandemic placed her firmly in one place long enough to finish her first book, a memoir called The Third Option.
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Beca lives in a multilingual and multicultural world, speaking Spanish at home, English at work and stuttering French in the streets. Despite coming from a small town in New England, she has found a way to live in an ever-widening world.
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Her adventure seeking took her on long haul solo travel and ultimately showed her the way forward after divorcing and losing the world she so consciously built in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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She is now remarried and creating something very different in snowy Montreal. Her memoir details how she stepped out of abuse, process addiction and chaos into a life of freedom.
