The author has been writing professionally for 26 years. She started her career writing cartoons that made fun of her co-workers. Now she writes an advice column called ask polly, and it's on sub stack. Her husband was a fan of her mean spirited humor when they first met. The book is the whole story of her marriage.
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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