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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780749955373
When Laura Munson’s essay was first published, the New York
Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the
comment feature on their website. Readers sent it to their friends
and therapists gave it to their clients. What did Munson write that
caused such a fervour? Laura detailed what happened when her
husband of more than twenty years told her he wasn’t sure he loved
her anymore and wanted to move out. Laura’s response to her
husband: I don’t buy it. In this poignant and funny memoir, Laura
recounts the time her faith in her marriage was put to the test.
Shaken to the core after the death of her beloved father, not
finding the professional success that she had hoped for, and after
much therapy, Laura, aged forty, realised she had to stop basing
her happiness on things outside her control and commit to an ‘End
of Suffering’.
THIS IS NOT THE STORY YOU THINK IT IS is true to its title.
The book took me by surprise. I read it in one sitting and loved
Munson’s tone, wit, wisdom and writing – Anita Shreve, author of
THE PILOT’S WIFE Laura Munson takes the spiritual stuff and the
personal stuff and the love stuff and the pain stuff and she brews
them all together in a very fun and touching memoir. I’m a fan.
This is a wonderful book Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of
MIRACLES AND A RETURN to Love Let me tell you what this book is
about. This is a book about saying yes. It’s the story of Laura
Munson’s alchemical ability to create abundance and bounty in the
face of scarcity and abandonment – no small triumph. Filled with
gems big and small… Munson is a wonderful guide – wise, brave,
and tenaciously honest – Melanie Gideon, author of THE SLIPPERY
YEAR: A MEDITATION ON HAPPILY EVER AFTER This book is fabulous.
Laura Munson’s noble quest to become the source of her own
happiness will take you by the hand and heart as it guides you
through the steps to living a life without suffering. Her story
pulls back the curtain on the only magic we e Arielle Ford, author
of The SOULMATE Secret
From Publishers Weekly
A kind of colloquial diary composed during the rocky summer her
husband was suffering a midlife crisis, debut author Munson aims to
convince the reader, in her chatty, self-absorbed narrative, that
her hard-won serenity helped conquer her husband’s shakiness at
committing himself to their future together. When her husband (who
remains nameless) announced his uncertainty that he loved her, then
embarked on bizarrely atypical behavior, leaving her and their two
children, eight and 12, wondering where he was, Munson had her own
notions about what was ailing him, reinforced by mountains of
self-help books and therapists: his job was failing, he was
drowning in debt, and he was worried about losing their fabulous
20-acre horse-and-ski farm in rural Montana. Munson hoped he could
regain a sense of gratitude for what they had, namely 15 years of a
loving family. Munson urged her husband to take a trip, as she had
just returned from a month-long rejuvenating stint to Italy, or
even helicopter lessons, yet his resentment of her ran deeper than
she cared to confront. She concentrated on what she could control,
namely creating a nice home and throwing herself into community
activism, then witnessed with joy her husband’s gradual coming
around. Unfortunately, Munson’s journey doesn’t ring entirely
convincing or forthright, and if the title truly reflected her
marital crisis, the reader might run the other way.
(Apr.)
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