Washington Post“Sterling….Marriage Confidential is so rare, such a pleasantly charming pearl of great price…You learn something, but you hardly notice because you’re having such a good time….Flat-out brilliant….” washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/pamela-haags-marriage-confidential-pearls-of-wisdom-about-matrimony/2011/05/17/AGVPTKCH_story.html
USA Today“This personal meditation on the modern marital state asks questions instead of providing answers. Hers is the rare book a divorced parent can read without feeling he or she has personally undermined Western civilization….The perfect book club choice….Free of the inflammatory politics and cultural baggage that usually accompanies the topic…It does make you reflect on modern mating habits. It’s fun.”
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Publishers Weekly (STARRRED REVIEW)
“with erudition and wit… Haag has her capable finger on the pulse of the American marriage…”
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publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-171928-8
Huffington Post“Fascinating….Couldn’t be more timely, or relevant.” huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/summer-books_b_891906.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008#s305775&title=Pamela_Haag_Marriage
UK Daily Mail
Bookpage “[Haag] wittily and meticulously explores what sets apart those who suffer quietly in their semi-happy marriages from those take action.” bookpage.com/review/marriage-confidential/today%27s-marriage-minefields
People magazine“Is marriage an outmoded institution…or does it just need a little reinvention? Haag’s well-researched, provocative study will get you thinking.” [Great Summer Reads] scribd.com/fullscreen/57401322?access_key=key-29eqis0ydl6wy8z5gocj
Psychology Today“I read it voraciously. . . . [Haag] is thoughtful, engaging, unconventional, and amusing.” - Bella DePaulo
psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201105/melancholy-marriage-are-we-in-post-romantic-era
psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201105/melancholy-marriage-are-we-in-post-romantic-era
Kirkus Reviews“An easy read with a low jargon quotient. A serious examination of contemporary marriage.”
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kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pamela-haag/marriage-confidential/#review
Library Journal“This keen study…balances the juicy expose for a popular audience…and the serious, footnoted analysis suggested by the author’s credentials.” pamelahaag.com/pdf/LibraryJournal_may2011.pdf
Date Night magazine“A fascinating journey through the evolution of marriage.”
The Week magazine “Haag might be right in suggesting that the spark dies because too many of us are ‘marrying ourselves’–depending on shared temperament and interests to get us through the long haul.” pamelahaag.com/pdf/theWEEKmagREVIEWS.pdf
The New Republic
Dinah Project“Pamela Haag has a captivating style of writing, so this, together with an intriguing subject, equals a great read.” - Bev Damelin
dinahproject.com/marriage-confidential-book-review
dinahproject.com/marriage-confidential-book-review
Shreveport Times“This thoughtful book lifts the curtain on a national epidemic of ‘semi-happy’ marriages.” link coming soon…
Mental Health Net metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6199&cn=139
Family Matters, Judge Harvey Brownstone, Toronto
“Read this book. Haag is brave enough to say things that other people won’t.”
Ms. Magazine
Top 100 Feminist Nonfiction Books
msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/10/01/top-100-feminist-non-fiction-countdown-90-81
msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/10/01/top-100-feminist-non-fiction-countdown-90-81
Martha Stewart Radio, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, and the Huffington PostNamed as a recommended summer read theradioblog.marthastewart.com/2011/06/the-morning-living-summer-reading-list-2.html
Laura Kipnis, author of Against Love ”A startlingly honest and surprisingly funny account of marital discontent….Avoiding comfortable bromides and rejecting the usual cliches, Haag reports on how married people really live these days– and guess what? It’s not all bad news! This is one of the few books around with something new to say about the travails of modern love and coupledom.”
Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity“In this timely and thought-provoking analysis of modern coupledom, Pamela Haag paints a vivid tableau…Written with wit and aplomb, this page-turner will instigate an insurrection against our marital complacency.”
Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage: A History “Pamela Haag doesn’t shy away from controversy in discussing how some marriage “rebels” try to breathe new life into their relationships. A candid and thought-provoking read.”
Debby Applegate, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Most Famous Man in America“Brilliant…Both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique of our time.”
Linda Hirshman, author of Get to Work “The personal is political after all. This first big history of the marriages of the post-feminist generation tells a riveting story of how socially empowered women…and their mates are still struggling to find happiness in their personal lives.”