“Book Descriptions: The short story "Separating" by John Updike tells the story of a husband and wife who decide to divorce. The thing that is not easy for both, not about separation, but about how to talk and tell their children that they will get a divorce.
"Separating" is one of 18 stories Updike wrote about the Maple family, considered a loosely autobiographical account of a dissolved marriage that spans over two decades. "Separating" is part of John Updike's 1979 collection "Too Far to Go."
The story was first published in The New Yorker in 1975.” DRIVE