Agent: Katie Shea Boutillier, Donald Maass Literary. This literary spin on Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story aims for bittersweet, but lands on depressing.
Most rom-com readers will object to the emotional affair between Katrina and Nathan while Nathan was married, and the pretentious, privileged Nathan and self-involved Katrina do little to redeem themselves. The prose is rather pedestrian for how loftily both characters discuss literature, and the alternating timeline between their work on the new novel and their collaboration on Only Once adds little. They hole up in Florida and insult each other through drafting their new manuscript-until their true feelings reveal themselves on the page. Nathan was married at the time, and rumors about their art reflecting their lives drove Katrina to an early retirement and Nathan to tell the New Yorker that writing with Katrina was “torture.” But when Katrina’s literary agent turned fiancé, Chris, runs into financial trouble and Nathan’s solo book proposal is rejected, the pair reluctantly agree to work together again. Three years ago, Nathan Van Huysen and Katrina Freeling co-wrote the bestseller Only Once, which centered on an affair. Married coauthors Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka ( Time of Our Lives) break from their usual YA rom-coms for a surprisingly bleak adult debut that’s light on both romance and comedy. 25 2022 by Emily Wibberley (Author), Austin Siegemund-Broka (Author) 2,325 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Library binding 43.96 Other new from 43.96 Paperback 20.99 Other new, used and collectible from 13.
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