Wedding Cake for Breakfast
Essays on the Unforgettable First Year of Marriage
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Every woman plans for the big wedding day. Few plan for the day after. But once the cake has been cut, the dress has been worn and the band has played its last song, a marriage begins.
From the thrill and dread that comes with an unplanned pregnancy to catching up with an ex and having second thoughts, Wedding Cake for Breakfast offers an intimate and often surprising look at that first year of marriage through the eyes and lives of 23 acclaimed women writers. With humor and candor, this collection takes readers behind closed doors for close-ups and personal glimpses into the emotional joys and complications of creating a life together—all the while blending families, furniture, and traditions for the very first time.
Gathered together in this hilarious and heartwarming anthology some of today’s most renowned female voices, including New York Times bestselling authors Susan Jane Gillman, Joshilyn Jackson, and Jill Kargman, share their most touching and illuminating stories from the first 365 days of matrimony.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This sweet-tempered essay collection aims to reveal the great truths and surprises of the first year of marriage, setting the wives firmly at the center of that experience. It manages some humor and charm and a few dashes of pathos, but the majority of its conclusions are uninspired. The writing is weighted heavily toward the gushy, and many of the essays spend a great deal of time wandering through the courtship and the wedding before getting to what is meant to be the important part. The book is admittedly most interested in the wives, and we learn a great deal about the women, but very little about the men in these partnerships. Further, though the editors express their desire that these pieces would appeal to all married women, most of the stories play directly to traditional expectations. The collection includes only one essay about a non-traditional marriage, and mentions same-sex marriage only once. Some of the essays are touching and humorous, and others provide a reassuring take on the transitions of early wifehood, but there is nothing unforgettable here.
