Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

by Heather Havrilesky
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

by Heather Havrilesky

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Overview

“One of the first honest, moving and funny portrayals of a solid marriage I have ever read.” —Jessica Grose, The New York Times

A Best Book of 2022 from The New Yorker and Chicago Tribune

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798200852765
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 02/08/2022
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part I

1 Beginning 3

2 You Will Be Deeply Loved 13

3 True Romance 35

4 The Jumpy Castle 45

Part II

5 Wedlocked 65

6 Expecting the Worst 79

7 Just Relax 95

8 Meet Officer Cow 113

9 Aging Viciously 129

10 Vertigo 137

Part III

11 The Suburbs 157

12 Highway to Hell 179

13 Fight Song 193

14 Cheer 203

15 Angry Birds 211

Part IV

16 Crushed 235

17 Pestilence 253

18 Plague 265

19 Ending 277

Acknowledgments 287

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