The Monogamy Prize: How an American in Paris Found Her Game

By Pamela Druckerman

A marriage memoir from the bestselling author of Bringing Up B b

On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Pamela Druckerman's life has stalled. She was in her early thirties when she moved to Paris, married a dashing fellow journalist, and became a celebrated author. Yet now, it's her husband who churns out a book a year and wears earplugs around the house. Her adolescent children are more French than American, and her Parisian neighbors haven't gotten any more welcoming. Once a prolific writer, she has slipped in status to her family's head of purchasing and quality control.

Tired of feeling unappreciated--and tempted by an unexpected offer from a man from her past--Druckerman decides to try on the famously flexible French approach to monogamy ("What is fidelity, really? Isn't it to be true to yourself?"). She grants herself a one-off fiftieth birthday present: a secret afternoon with "the banker."

What ensues is more than she ever expected. Is this radical self-care or relationship suicide? Have honesty-obsessed Americans been approaching coupledom all wrong? Can an American in Paris ever truly become French?

The Monogamy Prize is a disarmingly intimate and deeply funny account of one woman's passage and a bold exploration of the rules of modern marriage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593655362
• ISBN13: 9780593655368
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"