A Today Show Summer Reads PickA Washington Post Book of the Year“We think we know the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship–how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her … herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband’s fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, “a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect.”
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DNF’d at 53% because I Just. Don’t. CARE.
I wanted something short and sweet to knock out in a day or so as my last book took me about a week to get through, and I wanted something quick. At 208 pages, I figured this would be a breeze.
It was not a breeze.
Today, on day 4, I’ve decided to throw in the towel and move on. I’ve got to say, the …
Shows the author’s promise. But he was not writing what he know…
After loving the novel LESS, I picked this book to explore more of Andrew Sean Greer’s fiction. Although this one displays a similar mastery of prose – it fell short in many other ways.
The year is 1953 in San Francisco. American society is still recovering from World War II and sending more young men to fight in Korea. Pearl is four years into a …
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