Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would. I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you’re so disenchanted with your own life. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you’re trying to read. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house.
It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love.“We don’t treat each other very well, I suppose. comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love."- Time Out New York, "A Pandora's box-style tragicomedy. comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love."- Time Out New York, "A Pandora's boxstyle tragicomedy.
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