How to be married
Subtitle: what I learned from real women on five continents about surviving my first (really hard) year of marriage
By: Jo Piazza
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harmony Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780451495556
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies; Marriage; American Authors; Biography; Newlyweds
Description: "At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone's partner -- all the time? In the tradition of writers such as Nora Ephron and Elizabeth Gilbert, award-winning journalist and nationally bestselling author Jo Piazza writes a provocative memoir of a real first year of marriage that will forever change the way we look at matrimony. A travel editor constantly on the move, Jo journeys to twenty countries on five continents to figure out what modern marriage means. Throughout this stunning, funny, warm, and wise personal narrative, she gleans wisdom from matrilineal tribeswomen, French ladies who lunch, Orthodox Jewish moms, Swedish stay-at-home dads, polygamous warriors, and Dutch prostitutes. Written with refreshing candor, elegant prose, astute reporting, and hilarious insight into the human psyche, How to Be Married offers an honest portrait of an utterly charming couple. When life throws more at them than they ever expected -- a terrifying health diagnosis, sick parents to care for, unemployment -- they ultimately create a fresh understanding of what it means to be equal partners during the good and bad times. Through their journey, they reveal a framework that will help the rest of us keep our marriages strong, from engagement into the newlywed years and beyond." -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: San Francisco : after happily ever after; title: Chile : surrender?; title: Mexico : never stop talking; title: Maine : we're a team?; title: Denmark : make your house a home; title: France : be your husband's mistress; title: San Francisco : for better or worse; title: Israel : secure your own oxygen mask first; title: Kenya : it takes a village; title: Holland : you didn't marry your job; title: India : a little thanks goes a long way; title: Meghalaya (the border of India and Bangladesh) : money, money, money; title: Sweden : bending gender roles; title: Tanzania : conquer the world together; title: Scotland : good decisions, lessons from year one.