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WEDDING TOASTS I'LL NEVER GIVE

Ada Calhoun

A journalist of insight, wit, and compassion, in this new book, Ada Calhoun turns her remarkable talents to a poignant consideration of the beautiful complexity of marriage. 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.

WEDDING TOASTS I'LL NEVER GIVE is a collection of poignatn and witty on the beautiful complexity 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 those contemplating the leap 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. Ada Calhoun’s first book, St. Marks Is Dead, was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year, and garnered a spectacular amount of press coverage nation-wide. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.

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Book Published 2017-05-01 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

Comments

By turns hilariously candid, thought-provoking, and romantic,Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Givegave me a richer view of the joys and challenges of marriage—especially my own marriage.

Ada Calhoun is the friend we all need--the one who lets us behind the curtain of her good marriage to help us better understand our own. She’s smart, funny, and best of all, willing to bare all.

Brutally honest, hilarious and unsentimental --but never unkind--this is a book for anyone who has ever had a thought (good or bad) about the institution of marriage. I devoured this gem in one sitting.I want to marry this book.

A warm, tart, corrective to the persistent conviction that a wedding is the neatend of a love story.

What a witty, sexy, surprising testimony to the institution of marriage! It’s the best essay collection I’ve read in a long time, just astoundingly honest and insightful about what marriage really means. And I say that as someone who has been married 20 years.

Extremely funny and deeply insightful. With its generous spirit and breathtaking honesty, Ada Calhoun’s instruction manual of a book recalls another all-time favorite, Anne Lamott’s classic Bird by Bird. This slim volume is brimming with practical advice, and should be mandatory reading for married people and anyone who’s contemplated taking the leap.

True, funny, and wise, Ada Calhoun’s insight into the nature of marriage is a compulsively readable and sneakily profound primer on all interpersonal relationships. She should be required to give a toast at every wedding, Bar Mitzvah, and funeral she attends.

This unflinchingly honest, astutely balanced probe of a most perplexing institution asks all the right questions. It sets up a conversation with the reader, who is challenged to reflect at each point, choosing between ‘No, that’s not me’ and ‘How did sheknowthat?’ Most of the time, she knows.

Ada Calhoun has written the definitive meditation on marriage in all of its mystery and imperfection. It should be required reading for anyone considering it, and highly recommended for those who want to be reminded of why they did it in the first place.

This really spoke to me. It’s a beautiful love letter to what marriage is. Ada Calhoun seems like she’d be a ball to hang out with. Marriage: not so bad, guys

An uncommonly graciousinvitation to rethink our relationship to an institution that often seems to have us doomed before we begin. There’s been so much cant, as they used to say in the 19th century, written about marriage, but Ada Calhoun’s book is honest about the struggle to love another person without congratulating itself for being honest, and if that isn’t a spiritual discipline, I don’t know what is.