The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
by Joseph Fink, Meg Bashwiner
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A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides.There are two sides to every love story.
In 2009, 22-year-old Joseph Fink, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he show more could snag free tickets to their shows.
Meg Bashwiner, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright, was living with her parents in New Jersey, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company.
Joseph and Meg's stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year, they were a couple. Within five years they were touring the world, performing on some of the world's greatest and not so great stages.
In this candid, soul-baring memoir, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together, each telling their story as they remember it, without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their first kiss, first breakup, first getting back together, the death of a father, marriage, international fame, world tours, mental illness, and discussions about having children. Sometimes, they recall things differently—neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way—but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean.
Poignant, funny, and real, alternately told in Joseph and Meg's remarkably different, yet equally compelling voices, The First Ten Years is the story of two individuals finding their way in the world and becoming "adults" as they learn to become a couple.
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this is not an earth shattering, must read book by any means, but Meg and Joseph are very likable and i didn’t mind spending some time in their company. this joint memoir was SO cute and sweet. i have never read a book like this, a side-by-side joint memoir of their first ten years together. and they wrote it without seeing each other's work, until it was all finished. maybe they will write volume two of their next ten years together ten years from now!
I enjoyed this book a lot. They wrote their story separately and then put it in a book. It was cute the differences on what was important to each of them and sometimes conflicting accounts of the same story.
A memoir written by two people reflecting back on the first 10 years of their relationship, each writing about the memorable times in each year. I liked the concept of the book a bit more than the actual book.
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Joseph Fink is a writer and editor. He is the co-owner of Commonplace Books and has two collections of short works. He and Jeffrey Cranor write the hit podcast and touring live show Welcome to Night Vale. It Devours!, is their second book. It was published in October 2017, and is a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)
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