Synopsis
"...[a] short, sharp and sensitive volume...[Ada's] witty, enthusiastic, cautionary, emotional and hard-headed reflections ought to be required reading for anyone entering, experiencing, leaving or avoiding marriage." --The Guardian
Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give," Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with frank insight from experts, clergy, and friends, she upends expectations of total marital bliss to present a realistic-but ultimately optimistic-portrait of what marriage is really like. There will be fights, there will be existential angst, there may even be affairs; sometimes you'll look at the person you love and feel nothing but rage. Despite it all, Calhoun contends, staying married is easy: just don't get divorced. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give offers bracing straight talk to the newly married and honors those who have weathered the storm. This exploration of modern marriage is at once wise and entertaining, a work of unexpected candor and literary grace.
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About the Author
Ada Calhoun has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. She is the author of St. Marks Is Dead (W.W. Norton & Co., Nov 2015), a "revelatory" (Kirkus), "captivating, multidimensional" (Publishers Weekly) narrative history. With St. Marks Is Dead, Ada Calhoun just became the most important new voice on old New York, wrote the Village Voice in a 2015 cover profile of the author. Born and raised on St. Marks Place, she lives in Brooklyn.
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