Can This Marriage Be Saved?
A Memoir
by Nancy McCabe
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Pub Date 7 Sep 2020 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2020
University of Missouri Press | University of Missouri
Description
Advance Praise
“They say it is impossible to understand another person’s marriage, and perhaps equally impossible to comprehend your own, but Nancy McCabe’s Can This Marriage Be Saved? is a wise, funny, and inventive attempt to put those notions to rest. McCabe recounts her early years vividly, with delightful honesty and remarkable insight. Every page is a pleasant surprise.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
“This is a failed-marriage memoir with an interesting twist: the narrator admits to entering into the marriage in bad faith yet remains committed to the union. It’s also a redemption story of a young woman growing toward independence. That it eschews . . . a victim narrative and owns up to the narrator’s failings is refreshing.”—Michele Morano, author of Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and Like Love
“Why should a reader care about some writer’s long-ago, short-lived marriage? Because when the writer is Nancy McCabe, the examination of that long-ago marriage helps us understand our own struggles for love and independence. . . . This is an immensely lively performance from which we emerge not merely entertained but enlightened and grateful. McCabe’s done the difficult work of probing her heart, which brings us closer to apprehending our own. . . . An engaging, spirited, and thoughtful work.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
“Nancy McCabe's memoir, Can This Marriage Be Saved?, is luminous in its need to know even the hardest truths. This story of a young woman ascending is by turns heartbreaking and triumphant. This is a book for anyone who has traveled, or is traveling, the long road to self-acceptance. I've read and admired Nancy McCabe's work for years, but she's truly at the top of her game in this brave new memoir.”—Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Marketing Plan
Virtual bookstore speaking events, including
Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, KY in Sept. 2020 and White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA in Oct. 2020. Dec. 10 reading in InKY Series.
Virtual bookstore speaking events, including
Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, KY in Sept. 2020 and White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA in Oct. 2020. Dec. 10 reading in InKY Series.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780826222121 |
| PRICE | US$31.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 284 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Janilyn K, Reviewer
The title caught my eye because I used to read those articles in Ladies Home Journal many years ago. I've read McCabe's other books. This one is sad. She pines for her high school boyfriend and marries a man she doesn't love. She talks about her youth and feelings that led her to settle in a marriage she knew wasn't right even before the wedding. I could relate to many of her sentiments. Reading this was a travel back in time to more archaic conventions and habits.
Wendy W, Reviewer
This is a heck of a good memoir about (un)happiness is relationships and marriage.
While Nancy McCabe's book is for sure more of a memoir than a self-help publication, her writing style made it feel like one. Her experiences, although unique and deeply personal, felt oddly familiar to me as I saw myself in so much of her story.
I think it's a true gift to write a memoir which makes the readers feel almost like they went through these experiences with her. McCabe explores her marriage and various decisions she made, even though many were against herself. She also explores being a woman is today's society and the meaning of a good marriage and happiness. The weight of expectations is also heavy on the pages.
I'd highly recommend this book to people who have ever been unsure of their relationships and want to reflect on their own life by listening to someone else's story.
*Thank you to the Publisher for. Agree advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Abby S, Reviewer
An honest open memoir the author shares with us her first marriage that was a big mistake.Warm real honest with humor and warmth.Really enjoyed .#netgalley#canthismarriagebesaved,
Erica G, Reviewer
It is an honest, insightful rendering of how she came to be the person she was at the time of her wedding. She recounts, in stunning detail, events that shaped her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood leading up to a relationship that culminated in marriage.
Although, Can This marriage Be Saved, Is deeply personal to the author’s experience, the premise is applicable to all of us. What leads up to the relationships that we are in and what events shape the person that we become? What happens to relationships when a person continues to develop and mature and the spouse does not? What then becomes of the relationship? Again, in vivid detail, Nancy describes the subtle events that eventually lead to the dissolution of the marriage.
The context of the story is set in the background of a culture that supports and nurtures lasting marriages at all costs. Nancy examines the introspection and efforts that are needed to not only hold the marriage together, but to let it go.
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