While Nightmarriage is anything but a handbook for navigating early marriage and parenthood, newlyweds and newly minted parents may see themselves reflected in its playful pages and feel a rush of relief!
Publisher's Synopsis
Chad Thomas Johnston's Nightmarriage is a whimsical memoir that explores the terrors of marriage and the perils of parenthood. Adapted from Johnston's blog series of the same name, Nightmarriage proves that, when two people marry, their flaws tie the knot, too.
In essays such as "My Wife, the Black Hole," "Hearts and Jumper Cables," "Knives and Wives," "Honeymoonwalking (to Jail)," and "Blessed Are the Tentmakers," Johnston weaves stories on his literary loom that are equal parts luminous and lunatic.
Writing as only a minister's son with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can, Johnston has crafted an observational ode to both the blunders and wonders of wedlock, and his writing is punctuated accordingly with absurd alliteration, appalling puns, and madcap metaphors. Nightmarriage is a must-read for fans of David Sedaris, Robert Fulghum, and Anne Lamott.
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"'Nightmarriage,' 'Abra-Chad-Abra,' 'Honeymoonwalking' . . . If I had a dime for every winning pun on the trials and triumphs of early marriage and parenthood that Chad Thomas Johnston has to offer in his debut (Nightmarriage), I still might only come out with a dollar (now that I consider the actual math). But what a dollar it would be—rarer than a silver one, and in its own right a golden one."
Bradford Winters
Writer for HBO's Oz, FX’s The Americans, Netflix's The Sinner,
Starz's Boss, and EPIX's Berlin Station