The Paper Marriage

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joanest, March 20, 2008 (view all comments by joanest)
Susan Kay Law’s latest novel, The Paper Marriage, is for anyone who understands John Lennon’s words, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

Sometimes you swing for a fast ball and totally miss the change up when it arrives. Tom Nash, the former Twins pitcher, understands that. Ann McCrary doesn’t. The fast ball she aimed for was a long-term marriage and children with her childhood sweetheart, sharing a home and the architectural firm they started together. The change up was the auto accident that left her husband in a coma.

At least in the batter’s box either you’re out or you immediately get ready for the next pitch. In Ann’s case it has been twelve years since that fateful changeup, twelve years of faithfulness to a man who doesn’t know she’s there. Twelve years until Tom Nash moves in next door, followed by his teenage Goth daughter Mer. In spite of the blown shoulder that ended his baseball career, he delivers another change up to Ann.

Mer, raised by her gold-digging baseball groupie mother, comes from Chicago for the summer to live with the father she barely knows. Tom is clueless on how to make up for everything he missed in his daughter’s life and how to accept her for who she is.

It’s the people and canines in Ann’s life –- her aging hippy mother; her in-laws, the perfect couple until Martin finally decides he wants to live again and Mary, so faithful to her son, has to find a new life for herself; her dog, Cleo, and Cooper the mutt next door (and the puppies); her neighbors; the denizens of the nursing home; and especially Mer and Tom -- who finally convince her she can move on, that she can maintain her loyalty to her husband and find a life of her own at the same time.

The Paper Marriage tells a story we can all identify with, full of intriguing characters who live their lives in spite of the change ups.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780425219355

Author:

Law, Susan Kay

Publisher:

Berkley Publishing Group

Subject:

General

Subject:

Married women

Subject:

Single fathers

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Love stories

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2008

Edition Description:

Mass Market

Publication Date:

20080331

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

368

Dimensions:

8.00x5.18x.94 in. .63 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18