The Three of Us

By: Ore Agbaje-Williams

Narrated by: Jake Fairbrother, T'Nia Miller, Tariye Peterside

Best Book of the Year
Time • Real Simple • Oprah Daily

A Belletrist Book Club Pick

"As short and sharp as a pairing knife . . . Moves along so briskly and with such sly wit . . . Deliciously wicked." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day.

What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?

The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky best friend, Temi, with whom to laugh about facile men, and a devoted husband who loves her above all else—even his distaste for Temi.

On a seemingly normal day, Temi comes over to spend a lazy afternoon with the wife: drinking wine, eating snacks, and laughing caustically about the husband's shortcomings. But when the husband comes home and a series of confessions are made, the wife's two confidants are suddenly forced to jockey for their positions, throwing everyone's integrity into question—and their long-drawn-out territorial dance, carefully constructed over years, into utter chaos.

Told in three taut, mesmerizing parts—the wife, the husband, the best friend—over the course of one day, The Three of Us is a subversively comical, wildly astute, and painfully compulsive triptych of domestic life that explores cultural truths, what it means to defy them, and the fine line between compromise and betrayal when it comes to ourselves and the people we're meant to love.

Slow!

This is one of the few books that I could not finish, it was going no where fast. Boring!

Easy Quick and Relatable

I thought this was a quick and easy read that I enjoyed. The story seemed relatable to me as a person who has a very close best friend. It’s very hard to have two worlds collide and make space for both. Loved it

hard to understand

I enjoyed the story and the tension between all three of the characters, but the narrator in part three was a bit hard to understand because of her thick British accent. Had to pause and rewind multiple times. All three of the characters are very unlikeable, so there really isn't someone to root for.

Well written but abrupt

Felt a bit like I was left hanging abruptly and Temi's cruelty seemed too much.

Epitome of a codependent relationship between two best girlfriends!

I thought when I started reading this story, it was gonna be a lot more interesting than it really was… it’s the epitome of the codependency relationship between two best girlfriends! The married woman character was a poor example of a women what should have had more of a back bone with her her BFF. The BFF was so annoying and rude that if I were the husband, I would have asked to her leave on multiple opportunities! The poor chap that wasn’t man enough to stand up for himself to either women! The BFF villain needed to get a life or get some good drugs!