“Kimberly Harrington is back with another honest, tender, and often hilarious book on the end of a modern marriage. No matter your relationship status, BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY begs the question — what are we all doing here? I laughed, I cried, I found myself in the pages over and over again.”

— Kate Baer, NYT bestselling author of WHAT KIND OF WOMAN

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays AMATEUR HOUR, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life. BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY is a time capsule of sorts. It’s about getting older and repeatedly dying on the hill of being wiser, only to discover you were never all that dumb to begin with. It’s an honest, intimate biography of a marriage, from its heady, idealistic, and easy beginnings to it slowly coming apart and finally to its evolution into something completely unexpected. As she probes what it means when everyone assumes you’re happy as long as you’re still married, Harrington skewers engagement photos, Gen X singularity, small-town busybodies, and the casual way we make life-altering decisions when we’re young. Ultimately, this moving and funny memoir in essays is a vulnerable and irreverent act of forgiveness—of ourselves, our partners, and the relationships that have run their course but will always hold profound and permanent meaning in our lives.