Description:
Last Couple Standing - Matthew Norman - 2020
By: Matthew Norman
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-17-20
Language: English
Genre: Fiction, Humor
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment - and get in way over their heads - in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged.
The New York Post’s Best Books to Read in Our Age of Social Isolation • "[Matthew] Norman’s funny and feeling writing makes for an irresistible read." (Esquire Best Books of 2020 So Far)
The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, 15 years later, they’ve started getting divorced around the same time, too. With three of the Core Four unions crumbling to dust around them, Jessica and Mitch Butler take a long, hard look at their own marriage. Can it be saved? Or is divorce, like some 40-something zombie virus, simply inescapable?
To maximize their chance at immunity, Jessica and Mitch try something radical. Their friends’ divorces mostly had to do with sex - having it, not having it, wanting to have it with other people - so they decide to relax a few things. Terms are discussed, conditions are made, and together the Butlers embark on the great experiment of taking their otherwise happy, functional marriage and breaking some very serious rules.
Jessica and Mitch are convinced they’ve hit upon the next evolution of marriage. But as lines are crossed and hot bartenders pursued, they each start to wonder if they’ve made a huge mistake. What follows is sexy, fun, painful, messy, and completely surprising to them both. Because sometimes doing something bad is the only way to get to the heart of what’s really good.
©2020 Matthew Norman (P)2020 Random House Audio
Critic Reviews
"In [Matthew] Norman’s funny and heartwarming novel...a Baltimore couple tries to head off the demise of their marriage with an unusual arrangement...Norman skillfully uses his gift for gentle humor to prod at the foibles and joys of marriage, parenthood, and love in this endearing charmer." (Publishers Weekly)
"This warm and witty tale of a devoted couple willing to throw out that pesky 'forsaking all others' rule in order to stay together crackles with fierce energy and emotional truth." (Judy Blundell, New York Times best-selling author of The High Season)
"Nothing is left off the table in Matthew Norman's Last Couple Standing, an equal-parts funny and heart-pinging novel that will be achingly relatable to both the married and the divorced - or to anyone who's ever contemplated being either. Norman's trademark humor and wit make this a page-turner you'll want to read with your funniest friend, then discuss over a couple of stiff martinis." (Sarah Jio, New York Times best-selling author of All the Flowers in Paris)
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