A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite | Conversation Starters A Beautiful, Terrible Thing is a memoir by Jen Waite. It is a story of betrayal, manipulation, and moving on. When Waite is faced with the reality that her husband, and father of their infant daughter, is not who she thought she was, she must find a way to put her life back together. Waite retells every scene where she was being lied to and manipulated by her ex-husband in A Beautiful, Terrible Thing. She also shares the shocking discoveries she made that finally pushed her to leave the man with whom she thought she was living a fairytale life. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing by Jen Waite has been called powerful by The New York Post. It is the "heartbreaking" story of Waite's "devastating betrayal," according to Bustle and Leigh Stein, respectively.   A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to.. Create Hours of Conversation: • Foster a deeper understanding of the book • Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups • Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately • Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before