The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined

Welcome to <I>Will and Grace</I> with kids, cats, and a mortgage.<BR/><BR/> In a memoir that celebrates the creative possibilities of intimate relationships, writer and psychotherapist Wayne Scott’s <I>The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage, Reimagined</I> is an unlikely love story: a distraught couple with three school-aged children, on their way to get a divorce, are surprised when they fall in love again.<BR/><BR/> In a voice at once vulnerable, tender, lucid, and funny, Wayne Scott offers the perspective of a queer (bisexual) man in a mixed-orientation marriage. After the couple separate, stunned and careening toward divorce—the expected outcome—they find themselves in a tiny room with a quirky and compassionate relationship therapist who offers them a challenge: find a “common story” about what brought them together to help them navigate the next iteration of their relationship.<BR/><BR/> Wayne Scott’s marriage memoir will appeal to readers who loved the messy rawness and emotional complexity of Noah Baumbach’s film <I> Marriage Story</I> —suffused with a more expansive sense of possibility and hope.