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Dani shapiro book5/25/2023 He has purchased a gun so that he can kill a pesky woodpecker destroying the exterior of their home in the Connecticut countryside. In the first pages of “Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage,” her late-middle-age, state-of-my-union memoir, the author gazes out the window at her husband on the lawn in his white terry-cloth bathrobe. That said, Dani Shapiro could make even a moment of weakness with a can of Rust-Oleum sound like poignant revelry with some timeless yet romantically volatile elements. Thus, to be married is to view other couples through divorce-colored glasses: Even when they’re engaged in the very exercises that hold them together, they might as well be huffing spray paint and sleeping with the nanny instead. The mutual teasing and sly insults that make one couple feel more alive might have another reduced to fisticuffs in seconds. The delineation of tasks that keeps one couple safe from destitution and filth would feel horribly rigid to another. The open communication that keeps one couple thriving would tear another couple apart within minutes. Marriages often appear more fragile from the outside looking in, possibly because the daily exertion of staying married entails wildly different calisthenics from couple to couple. LOVE AND TROUBLE A Midlife Reckoning By Claire Dederer 237 pp. WEDDING TOASTS I’LL NEVER GIVE By Ada Calhoun 192 pp. HOURGLASS Time, Memory, Marriage By Dani Shapiro 145 pp.
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