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- English
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About this book
Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.
One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back?
Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. “A fiercely memorable account of marital devotion against all odds” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Stay Married is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild ride through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.
One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back?
Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. “A fiercely memorable account of marital devotion against all odds” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Stay Married is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild ride through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- A Note to Readers
- Epigraph
- Salutation: A Conversation with the Beast
- Chapter 1: I Donât Know What Youâve Heard
- Chapter 2: Whatâs in the Box
- Chapter 3: Where the Dragons Are
- Chapter 4: The Unfortunate Fact of this Mysterious Man
- Chapter 5: Notes On Chad
- Chapter 6: The Truth Will Set You Free to Lose Your Mind
- Chapter 7: Laurenâs First Lie
- Chapter 8: Love Is a Joke
- Chapter 9: The Darkness He Called Night
- Chapter 10: A Brief History of Doubt
- Chapter 11: Goats and Monkeys
- Chapter 12: The Gravitron of God
- Chapter 13: Exile from the Magic Kingdom
- Chapter 14: Bannermen of Love
- Chapter 15: The Little Lawn Boy Learns His ABCs
- Chapter 16: The Treaty of Versailles
- Chapter 17: The Church of Broken Windows
- Chapter 18: Rapture
- Chapter 19: This Little Blight of Mine
- Chapter 20: Easter Eggs
- Chapter 21: Second Revelation
- Chapter 22: Back and There Again
- Chapter 23: The Hardest Thing
- Chapter 24: Lying in Bed
- Chapter 25: Notes On Chad, Revisited: A âDatelineâ Exclusive
- Chapter 26: The Gall
- Chapter 27: The Woman Who Brought Me Here Is Gone
- Chapter 28: There Was a Man in the Land of UZ
- Chapter 29: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Dog
- Chapter 30: Love at the Lone Wolf Lounge
- Chapter 31: Asexual Healing
- Chapter 32: What Happened Before the Wedding
- Chapter 33: This Is How It Ends
- Chapter 34: A Miracle in Yazoo
- Chapter 35: The Carriage House
- Chapter 36: What Just Happened
- Chapter 37: A Whore in Church
- Chapter 38: How to Stay Married
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright