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How to Stay Married

By: Harrison Scott Key
Narrated by: Harrison Scott Key, Lauren Key
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Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.

One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back?

Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. “A fiercely memorable account of marital devotion against all odds” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Stay Married is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild ride through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.

©2023 Harrison Scott Key (P)2023 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Read this book now.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll never trust anyone (or thing) named Chad again. Bravo!

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Best book of the year.

Raw, real and cannot be understated. Must read for any married couple. Even if you aren’t married. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.

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Stone throwers should not read this book. But most of the stone throwers I know could throw a rock passed there scorn. Whatever that means. I think that’s 15 words.

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Amazing. Heartfelt. Funny. Gut-wrenching

This story is incredible and heartbreaking. It’s hilarious and challenging. I’m a better person after hearing this story. Thank you Harrison and Lauren for telling your story.

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Hilarious and Tragic

So hilarious, yet certainly tragic and real. Thanks for the transparency and insights into the journey.

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Great advice

Brutally honest portrayal of marriage with humorous great advice on how to stay married. So relevant in today’s world.

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Humor and Honesty

I wasn’t prepared for the raw honesty made palliatable by humor. This isn’t a James Dobson book on marriage. No, this is the unvarnished truth about infidelity and how human beings react to it. And yet it is a supernatural story about the basest selfishness that can destroy hearth and home. I’m so glad that I listened to it! It’s like being afforded the rare opportunity to be offered a private reading by the author in your own home.

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Finished in one sitting!

Masterful storytelling, Audible requires I say way more in this box - just read it!! Well, listen

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Marriage is hard

Harrison tells an honest, funny and heartbreaking story. At times I felt his pain and to be honest I skipped through the Chapter his wife wrote because I felt I wanted to be on his side!! Great read

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greatest book I've ever read

it's amazing to me given the subject matter..Just how enthralled with your creativity and wit. I know you mentioned this is the book, but it's 100% true. besides the Bible(which is my favorite book by the greatest author) this book is next! FiGHT FOR HER is the best part of it for sure because every genuine believer knows how HE FOUGHT FOR US up on the wooden stake!

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