Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

Foreverland is a candid and insightful portrayal of modern marriage, exploring the joys, agitations, and calamities of a fifteen-year relationship. It reveals that relationships are not simply "happy" or "unhappy," but something much murkier.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

“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.

Weight: 224g
Dimension: 133 x 203 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780062984487