AN UNFINISHED MARRIAGE

Book ID/图书代码： 12739007B19298

English Summary/英文概要： In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.
With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave decision to take a year for herself away from her marriage, her frank assessment of herself at midlife, and her openness in sharing her fears as well as her triumphs won her admirers and inspired women across the country to reconsider their options. In this new book, Anderson does for marriage what she did for women at midlife. Using the same very personal approach, she shows us her own rocky path to renewing a marriage gone stale, satisfying the demand from readers and reviewers to learn what comes next.
When Joan and her husband Robin decided to repair and renew their marriage after her eye-opening year of self-discovery, the outcome was far from certain. He had suddenly decided to retire and move to Cape Cod himself and embark on his own journey of midlife reinvention. After the initial shock of incorporating another person back into Joan’s daily life and her treasured cottage, they begin the process of "recycling"–using the original materials of their marriage to create a new partnership. Rereading the letters that she had written from Uganda during the early years of their marriage, she is reminded about the nervousness and joy with which she began their life together. Her sudden incapacitation with a broken ankle reveals an unexpected resourceful and tender side in her husband. A grimly comic and strained dinner party with three other couples reveals to both Joan and Robin some of the emotional pitfalls (and horrors) that can befall married couples.
In her year of solitude by the sea, Anderson learned that "there is no greater calling than to make a new creation out of the old self." In An Unfinished Marriage, she charts the new journey that she and her husband have begun together, seasoned by their years of marriage but newly awakened to the possibilities of their future together. A unique, tremendously moving and insightful entry into the literature of marriage, it will provide salutary shocks of recognition and fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their own marital passages.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《在海邊的一年》續集。當妻子請長假，落單的丈夫如何被迫正視自己的中年瓶頸，不像一般男人把問題一股腦推給婚姻，最後總是以離婚收場。而妻子也給自己多一些時間回憶婚姻中的美好點滴，提醒自己兩人相愛的初衷。兩個更成熟健康的人，再重返婚姻時，會是一個全新的開始，沒有無謂的怪罪、怨懟與責難，並且尋回了愛，萌生更多的愛。（TT）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Joan Anderson is a seasoned journalist who has also written numerous children’s novels, including 1787: The First Thanksgiving Feast and The American Family Farm, as well as the critically acclaimed adult nonfiction book Breaking the TV Habit. A graduate of Yale University, Anderson lives with her husband on Cape Cod, where her “Weekend by the Sea” program for women seeking to experience a time of reflection is thriving. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, “CBS Weekend,” and numerous other broadcasts in connection with A Year by the Sea.
瓊·安德森是多部兒童小說的作者，也是《戒掉電視癮》的作者。本書是作者寫散文類作品和傳記類的第一次嘗試。安德森目前跟丈夫居住在科德角，這裏也是作者創作本書的地方。紐約時報暢銷書作者Joan Anderson給女性讀者帶來實用的建議和鼓勵，讓女性朋友能夠過一個有創意的、獨立而充實的人生，讓她們能更真切地瞭解她們自身和挖掘她們自身的潛力。Anderson通過了她自己的生活經歷和在她工作室工作的女性的經歷，為女性朋友們支照，教她們如何學會獨立。在書中她闡明了發現自身潛力的重要性，教會女性朋友們如何從日常生活中解脫出來，如何讓自己擁抱更多嶄新的機會。她住在馬塞諸塞州，她創辦的工作室每週末為全國的女性服務。

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