Romy Cade is a Brooklyn furniture conservator who spends her life uncovering what other people have hidden. When her polished, image-obsessed girlfriend Delphine dumps her, Romy is left with a cardboard box of belongings and an antique pocket watch that belongs to Delphine's formidable mother, Severine Marchand. Severine is a fifty-year-old hotel empire chairwoman who has spent thirty-four years constructing the perfect public life, burying her desires beneath designer shapewear and carefully managed secrets. But when Romy shows up at her Upper East Side townhouse to return the watch, the meticulous architecture of Severine's life begins to fracture. What starts as a tense exchange over a cabinet restoration quickly ignites into an undeniable, consuming affair. Romy is determined to strip away Severine’s armor, while Severine is terrified of what happens when the world sees the woman underneath. As the date of Delphine's engagement party looms closer, Severine must choose between the convenient life she’s built and the inconvenient woman she can't stop touching. My Ex's Mother Has Better Taste is a steamy, slow-burn sapphic age-gap romance about finding the courage to be seen, stripping away the past, and choosing love over appearances.
