{"id":129927,"date":"2023-06-22T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=129927"},"modified":"2023-06-21T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T03:49:37","slug":"harrison-scott-key-reads-and-signs-how-to-stay-married-the-most-insane-love-story-ever-told-monday-june-26-2023-530-pm-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/harrison-scott-key-reads-and-signs-how-to-stay-married-the-most-insane-love-story-ever-told-monday-june-26-2023-530-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Scott Key reads and signs “How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told” Monday, June 26, 2023, 5:30 pm at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, “How to Stay Married” tells the hilarious, shocking, and spiritually profound story of one man\u2019s journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife\u2014the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman \u201cwho\u2019s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church\u201d\u2014is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking action of How to Stay Married<\/em><\/a>, casting our narrator onto \u201cthe factory floor of hell,\u201d where his wife was now in love with a man who \u201cwears cargo shorts, on purpose.\u201d What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed with little but a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. How to Stay Married<\/em><\/a> is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em> through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Harrison Scott Key is the author of The World\u2019s Largest Man<\/em>, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and Congratulations, Who Are You, Again?<\/em>. Harrison\u2019s TEDx talk about the challenges and rewards of creative ambition (\u201cThe Funny Thing About the American Dream\u201d) is featured on TED.com, and his humor and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing<\/em>, Oxford American<\/em>, Outside<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/em>, Bitter Southerner<\/em>, Town & Country<\/em>, The Mockingbird<\/em>, Salon<\/em>, Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>, Image<\/em>, Southern Living<\/em>, Gulf Coast<\/em>, Creative Nonfiction<\/em>, and elsewhere. He has spoken and performed on radio (Snap Judgement<\/em>, WNYC Studios) and for hundreds of festivals, bookstores, conferences, variety shows, and universities. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Stay Married<\/em><\/strong>
By Harrison Scott Key
$27.99
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
ISBN: 9781668015506<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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