{"product_id":"the-husbands-a-read-with-jenna-pick-isbn-9780593915271","title":"The Husbands: A Read with Jenna Pick","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thrillingly original debut, THE HUSBANDS brilliantly asks how we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options. “Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it!” —Naomi Alderman,  NYT bestselling author of THE POWER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty-something Lauren has been leading a steady, enjoyable single life: great friends, good job, and a nice flat in south-east London, until, one night, she comes back from a party to find a stranger in her home. His name is Michael. He’s attractive, sweet, and, according to him, her friends, and the pictures on her walls, he’s Lauren’s husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as Lauren is trying to figure out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael climbs up  into the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man climbs down, and a new, slightly altered life reforms around her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLauren quickly realizes that her attic can somehow—incredibly—supply her with endless iterations of lives and partners. Cycling through marriages—sometimes lasting weeks, sometimes less than five minutes—Lauren grapples with her fate. If swapping husbands is as easy as changing a lightbulb, when do you know you’ve found the right one? How do you recognize what’s good, or what simple happiness feels like, in a world that demands constant optimization with one more search or swipe left?\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PARADE, AND BOOKRIOT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book doesn’t get bogged down in the why or how of the situation. Instead, it thrives on its humor, tenderness, and delightful plot twists.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Groundhog Day meets Bridget Jones’s Diary . . .[in] a screwball setup that Gramazio has tons of fun with.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gramazio masterfullyblends fantasy with realismas she puts a modern spin onthe timeless institution ofmarriage.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pittsburgh Post Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delightfully addictive . . . a bottomless champagne flute of a novel.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charming...there’s plenty of intelligence and candor in the author’s creative spin on the conundrum of commitment.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly characterized, philosophical, and funny. I enjoyed all the husbands, even (especially?) the terrible ones. A time-bending gem about the way we live now.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eGabrielle Zevin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Husband\u003c\/i\u003es is a wily and wonderful exploration of modern decision-making, kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Claire Lombardo, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Most Fun We Ever Had\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Naomi Alderman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Power and The Future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Husbands \u003c\/i\u003eis WONDERFUL: fresh, original, hugely entertaining and oddly comforting. . . . I laughed out loud countless times. . . . [This] was the most fun I’ve had reading in the longest time. 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