Title: You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up
Author(s): Annabelle Gurwitch
Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307463777
Extension: EPUB
Size: 279 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Interpersonal Relations, Family & Relationships, Man-woman relationships, Social Science, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Sociology, Marriage, Parenting, Jews, Married people, Jewish Studies, Cultural Heritage, Case studies, Married people - United States, Marriage & Family, Man-woman relationships - United States, Jews In The U.S., Kahn; Jeff - Marriage, Kahn, Parenting - United States, Jews - United States, Jeff - Marriage, Marriage - United States, Gurwitch, Gurwitch; Annabelle - Marriage, Annabelle - Marriage
From Publishers Weekly
Married for 13 years, Gurwitch and Kahn look back with laughter at the highs, the lows, and their different marital needs. Writer-actor Kahn (_Curb Your Enthusiasm_) won an Emmy for scripting The Ben Stiller Show; actress Gurwitch (_Seinfeld_) produced a documentary adapted from her 2006 book Fired! Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, & Dismissed. By teaming for this equally merry marriage memoir, the duo doubles the giggles and guffaws. Over many months, they have been doing readings and performances from this book in progress, when it had the working title, How Not to Have a Marriage Like Ours. The book includes alternating He Says/She Says sections. Opening with Jeff's pursuit of Annabelle, they write in a lighthearted fashion about ******, cats, living together, marriage, the honeymoon, and lots of sex: In the beginning, there was sex and it was good. In the middle, it became something to schedule like a tennis lesson and flu shot. A genuine crisis interrupted their comedic conflicts when their son was born with birth defects, a situation that affected their marriage: We became each other's psychological punching bags. In the concluding chapter, they speculate on the future direction of their marriage, possibly like the bonds of emperor penguins and Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Readers will hope they stay together to write more heartfelt, funny books like this one. (Feb. 14)
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Review
"You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story shows how hectic, hard and hilarious married life can be. Spanning friendship, courtship, marriage and parenthood, Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn's "he said/she said" memoir at times reads like a mix of couples therapy and "Real World" confessionals for grown-ups. Only funnier and heavier."-The Washington Post
"This book is a must-read for couples and singles alike. Finally, a married couple that doesn't hide behind such tedious traits as personal loyalty, good taste, and an overall sense of decorum. You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up tells people what marriage is really like!"-Liz Tucillo, co-author of _He's Just Not That Into_ You and author of How to Be Single
"So funny because it is so accurate. Kahn and Gurwitch illuminate the insanity of marriage. They make you want to embrace your spouse for the same reason you want to strangle them."-Ben Stiller
"Although after eleven and a half years of pure, uninterrupted marital bliss I don't relate at all to the subject matter, I still found Jeff and Annabelle's book to be hilarious."-Judd Apatow
"As someone who has never married or ever understood why anyone would,would, I feel I can say with authority that this is the finest, funniest, most insightful book I've ever read about a subject I'm completely unqualified to comment about."-Bill Maher
"The far right believes that marriage should only be one man plus one woman. But they are oh so wrong. Marriage should only be between two funny people, and Jeff and Annabelle are the shining examples of this new marriage movement."-Carol Leifer
"Damn, marriage isn't supposed to be this much fun! If anyone is going to save marriage, it won't be James Dobson-it'll be Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn."-Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
"Oh, now I get it. This whole sham of a marriage was not just for tax purposes, it was also to write and sell this immediately engaging book! I remember when Jeff first told me about Annabelle and the hazy, humid thermal cloud she wrapped his head in. I thought he was nuts. Turns out I was right (see pages 1-250). After reading this book, I feel sorry for both of them now. And that's quite an accomplishment."-David Cross, author of I Drink for a Reason
"He said tomato, she said shut up, and I took a Vicodin to ease the pain from laughing so hard."
-Sandra Tsing Loh, author of Mother on Fire and A Year in Van Nuys
"We're just not that into us."--Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
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