About the Book

A timely collection of brutally candid break-up stories resulting from three years of interviews by an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, "You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married "began as an oral history about the failures of an age-old institution and evolved into a practical marriage guide as racy and romantic as it is revelatory.Skeptical about traditional marriage and fed-up with preachy self-help books telling us how to be better husbands and wives, Shapiro, a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor, decided to crisscross the country with a tape recorder in an effort to better understand the roulette-level odds of maintaining a lifelong romantic union. Believing you learn more from failure than from success, he collected stories from hundreds of divorced people, hoping to uncover the myriad secrets about why love dies.

The result is an all access, wholly original treasure trove of marital wisdom from regular people who thought they'd found "the one" and lived to tell the tales of how it went wrong. No subject was too taboo, and these anonymous interviews reveal heartbreaking, heartwarming insights about sex, fighting, money, addiction, in-laws, and the Internet.

Profoundly personal yet universally relevant, this is a page-turning, voyeuristic peek into the lives of our friends and neighbors that is sure to spark heated debate and serious self-reflection. But ultimately, "You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married" is a hopeful examination of modern love.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 256 pages

Publication Date: Sep. 4th, 2012

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

ISBN-10: 1451657773

ISBN-13: 9781451657777

Series: Not Applicable

Language: English

• Categories: Divorce & Separation General Personal Growth