The Monogamy Prize | An Evening with Pamela Druckerman
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“Druckerman’s voice is intelligent, charming, witty, and downright funny. It’s like hanging out with a friend over a long, boozy lunch where everyone ends up revealing a little more than they thought they would, but it’s so much fun you can’t wait for the next date.” —Molly Ringwald, actor and author
About The Book
On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Pamela Druckerman’s life has stalled. She was in her early thirties when she moved to Paris, married a dashing fellow journalist, and became a celebrated author. Yet now, it’s her husband who churns out a book a year and wears earplugs around the house. Her adolescent children are more French than American, and her Parisian neighbors haven’t gotten any more welcoming. Once a prolific writer, she has slipped in status to her family’s head of purchasing and quality control.
Tired of feeling unappreciated—and tempted by an unexpected offer from a man from her past—Druckerman decides to try on the famously flexible French approach to monogamy (“What is fidelity, really? Isn’t it to be true to yourself?”). She grants herself a one-off fiftieth birthday present: a secret afternoon with “the banker.”
What ensues is more than she ever expected. Is this radical self-care or relationship suicide? Have honesty-obsessed Americans been approaching coupledom all wrong? Can an American in Paris ever truly become French?
The Monogamy Prize is a disarmingly intimate and deeply funny account of one woman’s passage and a bold exploration of the rules of modern marriage.
About The Author
Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of six books including Bringing Up Bébé, which has been translated into thirty-one languages and is being developed by Netflix into a feature film. She wrote the Dress Code column for The Economist’s 1843 magazine and a monthly column about France for The New York Times, where she won an Emmy and an Overseas Press Club of America award. She was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering Latin America, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s Magazine. Her most recent book is There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story. She lives in Paris.
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