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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Ada Calhoun is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis. Her memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give was named an Amazon Book of the Month and one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine. The history St. Marks Is Dead was a Kirkus Reviews and Boston Globe best book of the year selection. She has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New Republic.