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The harrowing and beautiful story of the first year of the author's second marriage.
In a plainspoken, emotionally accessible voice that readers have not heard from him before, Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, Hotels of North America, and other fictions, and of The Black Veil, a prize-winning previous memoir, lays bare, in an eventful month-by-month account, the first year of his second marriage.
At this story's start, Moody is, by his own description, "a balding middle-aged recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression who wrote a novel that people liked in the 90s." He is also the newly divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love, whose answer to the question "Would you like to be in a committed relationship?" is, fully and for the first time, "Yes."
And so his second marriage begins as he emerges from the wreckage of his past, humbly and with dearest hopes, only to be...
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