🖕Your Marriage is Fine Until It Isn’t: A Love Letter to Artists Who’ve Been Betrayed

Introducing Gabriella D’Italia’s Fierce, Grieving, Gorgeous Memoir: GETTING DRESSED IN THE DARK

Hey friends,

We need to talk about betrayal.
Not the kind you get over after a couple therapy sessions and a strong IPA. We’re talking floorboards ripped up, soul detonated, who-the-hell-even-am-I betrayal.

And art. We also need to talk about art—how it can hold you upright when everything else has buckled, how it lets you scream without opening your mouth, and how it just might save your damn life.

Gabriella D’Italia knows a little something about both.

Her memoir Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist’s Way Home hits shelves October 24, 2025. We’ve read it (obviously), and we’re still reeling. Imagine finding out your husband—your creative partner, your co-parent, your co-dreamer—has been sleeping with a younger friend you invited into your home. Imagine punching him in the face. Imagine not apologizing for it.

Now imagine turning that entire mess into a work of aching, gorgeous, furious art.

This is what Gabriella does. She doesn’t flinch. She feels. She builds a new world from the ashes of a handmade one, stitches her story together from memory, fiber, skin, and floor tile. Her book is a living thing—equal parts memoir and manifesto for anyone who’s ever loved deeply and lost harder.

We’re not going to pretend this is a cozy read. It’s not. It’s devastating and sensual and smarter than it should be allowed to be. It doesn’t offer easy answers, because Gabriella doesn’t believe in them. But it does invite you to stop pretending everything’s okay. To sit with your grief, your rage, your radical, beautiful self—and make something out of it.

And if that’s not what literature is for, what the hell is?

Get this book if:

• You’ve ever turned your heartbreak into a painting or a poem.

• You’ve ever wanted to burn the house down and rebuild it—gently, beautifully, one splinter at a time.

• You’re ready to be wrecked and remade by language.

Preorder Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist’s Way Home now.
Gabriella D’Italia is the real deal, and this memoir? It’s a landmark.

🖤
With defiance and admiration,
Unsolicited Press

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(P.S. Every copy preordered helps us keep publishing books that tell the truth, even when it punches you in the mouth.)