How to Be Married by Jo Piazza

How to Be Married by Jo Piazza

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

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.

Jo Piazza is a writer and editor who has contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Daily News (New York), New York magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, Elle, and Salon. She has appeared on CNN, NPR, Fox News, the BBC, and MSNBC, among other outlets. Jo has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia, a master's degree in religious studies from NYU, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Penn. She presently resides in San Francisco with her husband, their huge dog, and a baby boy, and is the author of The Knock Off, How to Be Married, Fitness Junkies, and Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win.

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ISBN 13	9780451495570
ISBN 10	0451495578
Title	How to Be Married
Author	Jo Piazza
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Year published	2018-06-19
Number of pages	320
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