Get our latest staff recommendations, classroom reading guides and discover assets for your stores and social media channels. Receive the Children’s Bookseller newsletter to your inbox when you sign up, plus more from Simon & Schuster.If you are an independent bookseller in the U.S. and would like to be added to our independent bookseller newsletter, please email indies@simonandschuster.com
Table of Contents
About The Book
Despite her best efforts not to become a Bridezilla, Hana finds herself transformed from a thirty-year-old woman with a 401(k) into a nearly unrecognizable version of herself as she spends weeks crafting save-the-date cards, worries about matching her cocktails to her wedding colors, and obsessively reads Martha Stewart Weddings magazine.
She decides that, if she is going to follow traditions like wearing white and walking down the aisle with flowers, she at least wants to understand why. In her search she turns up interesting wedding facts: bridesmaids, for instance, were originally recruited to confuse evil spirits. Ultimately, she casts a critical eye on the $72 billion wedding industry, from the women at wedding websites who cackle over the etiquette missteps of others to wedding magazines that provide checklists of 187 tasks to plan the perfect wedding, suggesting that to have anything less is to fail as a bride, as a woman, as a wife.
Part confessional memoir, part social critique, A More Perfect Union chronicles a year in Wedding Land, capturing as it does not only the stresses but the undoubted joys of becoming a bride.
Product Details
- Publisher: Atria Books (February 7, 2006)
- Length: 224 pages
- ISBN13: 9781416522935
Browse Related Books
Raves and Reviews
"Wry, informative, scary, and utterly hilarious."
-- Cathi Hanauer,author of Sweet Ruin and editor of The Bitch in the House
"Required reading for any once-coherent woman now faced with the sudden onslaught of save-the-date cards, prenups, and decisions like...is sage the new pink?"
-- Nia Vardalos, writer, director, and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
"With humor and genuine bemusement, [Schank] recounts her adventures in 'Wedding Land'...This book is fun to read."
-- Green Bay Press-Gazette
Resources and Downloads
High Resolution Images
- Book Cover Image (jpg): A More Perfect Union eBook 9781416522935
- Author Photo (jpg): Hana Schank Photo Credit:(0.1 MB)
Any use of an author photo must include its respective photo credit