The Longest Date: Life As a Wife

Publisher Marketing: After having endured enough emotional wreckage in her search for true love to fill a book (the "New York Times" bestseller "The Between Boyfriends Book"), two magazine columns, and five seasons of scripts for "Sex and the City," Cindy Chupack finally, mercifully, at the age of thirty-nine, met the Perfect Man. He did not seem to Cindy like the Perfect Man. Ian, with his bad-boy ways, struck her as someone whom she absolutely did not want as a husband, but he soon proved his worth with wit, warmth, a series of spectacularly cooked meals, and a marriage proposal made on a beautiful beach, the prospective groom perched heroically on a white stallion. Unable to resist the romance, Cindy married him and settled in contentedly for the long and gratifying happily ever after...or so she thought. Being a wife, Cindy discovers soon enough, is not so different from being a girlfriend, only now you have a permanent houseguest. Ian s endearing quirks became impossible-to-ignore and slightly irksome habits; what was once charming adventurousness now seems like recklessness (just why was he rappelling down the side of a building on a garden hose?); and his impossibly big heart has space enough for an impossibly big dog, a St. Bernard that looks, as Cindy realizes once it has taken possession of her home, like a person in a dog suit. And then there s all his stuff."The Longest Date" is the wonderfully funny, and ultimately, deeply moving story of a marriage, of the daily negotiations and accommodations about matters like cooking, holidays, space, money, and sex that every (newly or otherwise) wedded couple faces in the course of figuring out exactly who they are together and where they are headed. Cindy and Ian s own ongoing courtship takes a surprising turn when they decide to have a baby a plan that turns out to be far more complicated than they ever could have anticipated and that tests and strengthens their love for each other. The perfect companion for anyone navigating a marriage (or even just contemplating one), "The Longest Date" marks the welcome return of one of our most gifted and captivating comic writers." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013 (EAN 9780670025534, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013 (EAN 9780670025534, Hardcover) Booklist 12/15/2013 pg. 3 (EAN 9780670025534, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 01/07/2014 (EAN 9780670025534, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Chupack, Cindy Cindy Chupack has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/producer of HBO s Sex and the City and ABC s Modern Family. Several episodes she penned were individually nominated for Writers Guild and Emmy awards. Chupack s other TV credits include Everybody Loves Raymond, Coach, and the hour-long romantic comedy anthology series she created for NBC, Love Bites (which can be viewed on Hulu.com). She has written about dating and relationships for many publications and had her own column in Glamour and O, The Oprah Magazine. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her St. Bernard, and . . . you ll just have to read the book.