Heather haver lesky has a new book out. It's called foreverland, on the divine tedium of marriage. She goes into it in great detail and with great humour. The book came out a couple of weeks ago, and since then, has become a whole viral situation. But people aren't totally responding to the book. We talked about what that's like to pour yourself into a book like this, and then have it received in the way that hers has.
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly and Ask Molly newsletters. Her latest book is Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage.
“It’s not a good story when you're bullshitting people. I didn't want this book to feel like bullshit…. I wanted to show enough that you could feel reassured that it's normal to feel conflicted about your life and the people in it. It's normal to feel anxious about how much people love you. And it's normal to feel avoidant about how much people love you. It's normal to feel like a failure in the face of trying to stay with someone over the course of your entire life.”
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