{"product_id":"harrington-kimberly-but-you-seemed-so-happy-9780062993311","title":"But You Seemed So Happy","description":"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her\n\u003cbr\u003e\nacclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlife. Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndivorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndivorce — heavy on the dark humor with a light coating of anger and annoyance.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAfter all, on the heels of planning to dissolve a twenty-year marriage they had\n\u003cbr\u003e\nchosen to still live together in the same house with their kids. Throw in a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nglobal pandemic and her idea of what the end of a marriage should look and feel\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlike was flipped even further on its head. This originally dark and caustic exploration turned into a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmore empathetic exercise, as she worked to understand what this relationship\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmeant and why marriage matters so much. Over the course of two years of what\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwas supposed to be a temporary period of transition, she sifted through her\n\u003cbr\u003e\npast—how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, and divorce.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd she dug back into the history of her marriage — how she and her future\n\u003cbr\u003e\nex-husband had met, what it felt like to be madly in love, how they had changed\n\u003cbr\u003e\nover time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstill owed one another.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut You Seemed So Happy is a time capsule of sorts.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt’s about getting older and repeatedly dying on the hill of being wiser, only\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto discover you were never all that dumb to begin with. It’s an honest,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nintimate biography of a marriage, from its heady, idealistic, and easy\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbeginnings to it slowly coming apart and finally to its evolution into\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsomething completely unexpected. As she probes what it means when everyone assumes\n\u003cbr\u003e\nyou’re happy as long as you’re still married, Harrington skewers engagement\n\u003cbr\u003e\nphotos, Gen X singularity, small-town busybodies, and the casual way we make\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlife-altering decisions when we’re young. Ultimately, this moving and funny\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmemoir in essays is a vulnerable and irreverent act of forgiveness—of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nourselves, our partners, and the relationships that have run their course but\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwill always hold profound and permanent meaning in our lives.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53653924413782,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062993311_1.jpg?v=1781736558","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/harrington-kimberly-but-you-seemed-so-happy-9780062993311","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}