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UNWIFEABLE
From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor and brilliant wit.
"My story is not standalone. Single girl comes to New York; New York eats her alive. But what does standout is my discovery that you can essentially live a life that appears to be a textbook manual for everythingone can do wrong to find love and still find Mr. Right."
Mandy Stadtmiller came to Manhattan in 2005, newly divorced, 30 years old, with a job at the New York Post, ready to conquer the city and the industry in one fell swoop. For the next 9 years she proceeded to chronicle her soul-crushing downfall on the pages of the Post, New York magazine, and xoJane, with such an excruciating amount of honesty that she essentially became a living don't. Unwifeable. But it was when she gave up on love, that she came to terms with who she was: Broken. In pain. Hurting and angry. So she got sober. She gained control. She revisited the wreckage of her childhood and looked it square in the face. And it paid off. And on the very last day of her thirties, she got engaged on the steps of Times Square to a man, a twice-divorced stand-up comedian with 16 years sobriety, a man who spoke red flag fluently, who couldn't wait to make her his wife. Finally falling in love and getting married didn't magically somehow fix her - but it did represent a metamorphosis of spirit. And the story of UNWIFEABLE is the story of her journey to this point.
Stadtmiller breaks down her life with heart-wrenching (and often hilarious) detail within prose that makes it clear why her writing has drawn comparisons to both Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham. Her voice is one that moves easily between caustic wit, unflinching candor, unabashed sexuality, and levels of raw, honest pain and grief. UNWIFEABLE is a book that you can't help but respond to, one that follows in the footsteps of bestsellers by authors like Jessi Klein, Julie Klausner and Sarah Hepola.
Mandy Stadtmiller came to Manhattan in 2005, newly divorced, 30 years old, with a job at the New York Post, ready to conquer the city and the industry in one fell swoop. For the next 9 years she proceeded to chronicle her soul-crushing downfall on the pages of the Post, New York magazine, and xoJane, with such an excruciating amount of honesty that she essentially became a living don't. Unwifeable. But it was when she gave up on love, that she came to terms with who she was: Broken. In pain. Hurting and angry. So she got sober. She gained control. She revisited the wreckage of her childhood and looked it square in the face. And it paid off. And on the very last day of her thirties, she got engaged on the steps of Times Square to a man, a twice-divorced stand-up comedian with 16 years sobriety, a man who spoke red flag fluently, who couldn't wait to make her his wife. Finally falling in love and getting married didn't magically somehow fix her - but it did represent a metamorphosis of spirit. And the story of UNWIFEABLE is the story of her journey to this point.
Stadtmiller breaks down her life with heart-wrenching (and often hilarious) detail within prose that makes it clear why her writing has drawn comparisons to both Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham. Her voice is one that moves easily between caustic wit, unflinching candor, unabashed sexuality, and levels of raw, honest pain and grief. UNWIFEABLE is a book that you can't help but respond to, one that follows in the footsteps of bestsellers by authors like Jessi Klein, Julie Klausner and Sarah Hepola.
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