UNFINISHED MARRIAGE, AN(ISBN=) 英文原版

In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by
the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding
and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and
insight.

With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many
tens of thousands of readers. Her brave decision to take a year for
herself away from her marriage, her frank assessment of herself at
midlife, and her openness in sharing her fears as well as her
triumphs won her admirers and inspired women across the country to
reconsider their options. In this new book, Anderson does for
marriage what she did for women at midlife. Using the same very
personal approach, she shows us her own rocky path to renewing a
marriage gone stale, satisfying the demand from readers and
reviewers to learn what comes next.

When Joan and her husband Robin decided to repair and renew their
marriage after her eye-opening year of self-discovery, the outcome
was far from certain. He had suddenly decided to retire and move to
Cape Cod himself and embark on his own journey of midlife
reinvention. After the initial shock of incorporating another
person back into Joan’s daily life and her treasured cottage, they
begin the process of “recycling”–using the original materials of
their marriage to create a new partnership. Rereading the letters
that she had written from Uganda during the early years of their
marriage, she is reminded about the nervousness and joy with which
she began their life together. Her sudden incapacitation with a
broken ankle reveals an unexpected resourceful and tender side in
her husband. A grimly comic and strained dinner party with three
other couples reveals to both Joan and Robin some of the emotional
pitfalls (and horrors) that can befall married couples.

In her year of solitude by the sea, Anderson learned that “there is
no greater calling than to make a new creation out of the old
self.” In An Unfinished Marriage, she charts the new journey
that she and her husband have begun together, seasoned by their
years of marriage but newly awakened to the possibilities of their
future together. A unique, tremendously moving and insightful entry
into the literature of marriage, it will provide salutary shocks of
recognition and fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their
own marital passages.

From the Hardcover edition.