The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

After 18 years together, actors Mullally and Offerman divulge the lurid details of their life together in this uproarious oral history. The pair chronicle their entire relationship, beginning with their initial meeting during a 2000 production of The Berlin Circle in a small L.A. theater, when Mullally was an up-and-coming sitcom star and Offerman lived in a basement without electricity or plumbing. Despite seeming a little mismatched to some, the two fell in love and haven’t spent more than two weeks apart since (thanks to their two-week rule). Amid humorous recollections of “rubbing each other’s genitals with our hands” in the Sistine Chapel and scenes of Mullally jumping onto Offerman’s back to make it to the theater in time for her Emmy Award announcement, the pair plunge into deeper discussions of their Midwestern families (“They work hard, but they don’t talk about their feelings,” says Offerman), their age difference (Mullally is 12 years older), and their decision, after years of trying, not to have children (Mullally was 43, and “Nick didn’t have the trillions of sperm one might have hoped for”). Mullally and Offerman’s unmistakable chemistry shines throughout this wildly fun collection of sincere conversations and hilarious personal essays. (Oct.)