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Harrington, Kimberly.
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Harrington, Kimberly.
Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes.
Man-woman relationships -- Humor.
Marriage -- Anecdotes.
Marriage -- Humor.
Divorce -- Humor.
Divorce -- Anecdotes.
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Harrington, Kimberly.
Harrington, Kimberly.
Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes.
Man-woman relationships -- Humor.
Marriage -- Anecdotes.
Marriage -- Humor.
Divorce -- Humor.
Divorce -- Anecdotes.
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But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits / Kimberly Harrington.
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Harrington, Kimberly.
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Call #:
306
.81
H299b
Subjects
Harrington, Kimberly.
Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes.
Man-woman relationships -- Humor.
Marriage -- Anecdotes.
Marriage -- Humor.
Divorce -- Humor.
Divorce -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780063143005 (hc)
9780062993311 (trade pbk)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxi, 282 p. : 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts expectations, marriage, failure, a sort-of-divorce and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life. Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids as they slowly transitioned from being a married couple to single people (someday) living separately. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition, Harrington sifted through her past -- how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, divorce -- and dug back into the history of her marriage -- how they met, what it felt like to be in love, how she and her husband had changed over time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they still owed one another. But You Seemed So Happy is a time capsule of sorts. It’s about getting older and repeatedly dying on the hill of being wiser, only to discover you were never actually all that dumb to begin with. It’s an honest, intimate biography of a marriage, from its heady, idealistic, and easy beginnings to its slowly coming apart to its evolution into something completely unexpected. As she probes what it means when everyone assumes you’re happy as long as you’re still married, Harrington skewers engagement photos, small-town busybodies, Gen X idiosyncrasies, and the casual way we make life-altering decisions when we’re young. Ultimately, this moving and funny memoir in essays is a vulnerable and irreverent act of forgiveness -- of ourselves, our partners, and the relationships that have run their course but will always hold permanent meaning in our lives."--Amazon.
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Memoirs.
Essays.
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