Wedding Toasts Ill Never Give, Ada Calhoun
Wedding Toasts Ill Never Give, Ada Calhoun
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Author: Ada Calhoun

Narrator: Ada Calhoun

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rene

This is a deceptive book. You might think from the title it will be cutesy, but it is not. Instead it is filled with warmth and wisdom—not just about marriage but all kinds of relationships, from parenting to friendships. Calhoun writes with grace and humor. She dismantles the cultural expectations......more

Goodreads review by David

It's a book filled with marriage advice - which clearly dooms this book to a purgatory of well-intentioned bromides and Pinterest worthy quotes suitable for placement over a picture of a sun dappled tropical beach. But Ada Calhoun is far smarter and way more real-talk than that. Her advice on not ge......more