Heather Havrilesky. (2022). Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Heather Havrilesky. 2022. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. HarperAudio.

Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. HarperAudio, 2022.

Heather Havrilesky. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2022.

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     Heather Havrilesky writes the popular Ask Polly advice column on Substack and is the author of What If This Were Enough?, How to Be a Person in the World, and Disaster Preparedness. She has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered, among others, and also maintains the Ask Molly newsletter, written by Polly's evil twin. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.

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"Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom.... Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway." —Leslie Jamison

An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky

If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life?

In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame. This refreshingly honest portrait of a marriage reveals that our relationships are not simply "happy" or "unhappy," but something much murkier—at once unsavory, taxing, and deeply satisfying. With tales of fumbled proposals, harrowing suburban migrations, external temptations, and the bewildering insults of growing older, Foreverland is a work of rare candor and insight. Havrilesky traces a path from daydreaming about forever for the first time to understanding what a tedious, glorious drag forever can be.

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     According to former New York Magazine "Ask Polly" advice columnist Havrilesky (What If This Were Enough?), marriage is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's not pure bliss, but is bliss mixed with irritation, rage, delight, and disgust. With shrewdness and wit, Havrilesky details the ups and downs of her 15-year marriage, from meeting and marrying her husband, Bill, to pregnancy, childbirth, moving to the Los Angeles suburbs, and parenting older children, all while navigating the landscape of her ever-changing married life. Havrilesky writes with an engaging combination of bluntness and compassion, delivering cringeworthy statements about her husband's bodily noises only to then reveal the deep tenderness that she feels for this steadfast and still sexy man. Listeners will enjoy her narration, as it creates a sense of intimacy and transparency, making it seem that Havrilesky--advice columnist, best friend, and fallible guru--is speaking directly to them. VERDICT This candid and funny memoir will appeal widely, regardless of whether audiences have been married for years or eschew marriage entirely. Recommended for any memoir collection and for listeners seeking out incisive humor and honesty.--Sarah Hashimoto

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     October 25, 2021
     Havrilesky (What If This Were Enough?), New York magazine’s former advice columnist, considers the beauty and monotony of matrimony and family building in this deliciously sardonic memoir. While she writes movingly about her love for her husband, Bill, more poignant are her darkly funny ruminations on the way that “the world’s most impossible endurance challenge” can put even the strongest relationships on trial. “Being married is far more interesting than falling in love,” she writes. “Agony in a half-open, half-empty cereal box. Longing in a badly washed dish. Slow evolution, or a slow unraveling: it can be hard to tell which.” With acerbic humor and keen wit, Havrilesky explores the complicated emotions associated with major milestones in her life—describing the decision to get married as “a culmination of every wrongheaded notion you’ve ever had” and her baby’s birth by C-section as “rummage around in my open belly like... a cabinet jam-packed with heavy sports equipment.” No matter the joke or metaphor, palpable within each story is her love for her family—including her “snoring heap of meat” husband—and the friends who’ve helped her along the way. Havrilesky’s candid reflections will delight those who’ve taken the plunge, for better or for worse. Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Co.

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An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky

If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life?

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