NAIBA Notables
A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
A Happy Marriage
by Rafael Yglesias
Scribner
ISBN-10: 1439102309; ISBN-13: 9781439102305
July 7, 2009
Description:
A Happy Marriage is an intimate, emotional story of Enrique and Margaret's thirty years together-from their early courtship to her premature death from cancer. It's raw and candid, very much an autobiographical novel. It is an honest portrayal of marriage - this is, a complex portrait of tenderness, insecurity, lust, fear, compassion, power, affection and hope.
An excerpt from a bookseller review:
I just this minute finished this beautiful book and I am crying and even laughing a bit.
There has never been a book that probed family ties better. I turned down the corners of so many pages because I wanted to remember Yglesias' perceptive comments, laughed out loud a dozen times, cried tears with shared sadness -- all in this one book. I am going to buy a dozen copies and give A Happy Marriage to all of my closest friends. Rafael Yglesias does not spare himself at all. He makes himself a butt of his humor - and he throws zingers at his family and Margaret's family as well. I have a marker in the chapter called Family Feeling because I couldn't turn down all of the pages. But the aspect of the book  that I loved the most is the realization that people keep growing. Relationships don't stay static, but improve and deepen.
Carla Cohen, Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
Publisher support:
A Happy Marriage is a newsletter co-op title; as long as accounts did not already meet their maximum for Summer exempt co-op for newsletter titles, they qualify for $50 in exempt co-op for an order of 10 copies and $20 for an order of 5. Anyone who has any questions about their pool can feel free to email Wendy Sheanin or their S&S sales rep for details.
More resources:
Rafael Yglesias website
Rafael Yglesias photo
Rafael Yglesias Q & A
High-resolution book jacket
Printable flyer
Printable tentcard
Watch a video that Rafael Yglesias did with his friend Ben Cheever about the writing of A Happy Marriage.
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