This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Patchett, Ann	4-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Patchett, Ann	4-week checkout	Due 04-17-2024

Nonfiction, an introduction -- How to read a Christmas story -- The getaway car : a practical memoir about writing and life -- The sacrament of divorce -- The Paris match -- This dog's life -- The best seat in the house -- My road to Hell was paved -- Tennessee -- On responsibility -- The wall -- Fact vs. fiction -- My life in sales -- "The love between the two women is not normal" -- The right to read -- Do not disturb -- Introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2006" -- Love sustained -- The bookstore strikes back -- This is the story of a happy marriage -- Our deluge, drop by drop -- Dog without end -- The mercies.
Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments-- to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband-- creating a resonant portrait of her life.

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Happy Marriage submitted by hcf on August 31, 2014, 7:00pm Short stories from Ann Patchett about her relationships.

Essays by a Wonderful Writer submitted by sdunav on June 12, 2015, 1:46pm Patchett is better known for her novels (like Bel Canto, which I think I read for book club), but this is a collection of her non-fiction essays - many previously published in Harper's, the NY Times Magazine, Granta, etc.

Anyway, the story of her marriage (and her previous divorce, and her parents' divorce, and many other failed relationships) is just a minor part of this. My favorite story was a heart-breaking one about taking care of her grandmother, but there are also wonderful descriptions of living in Tennessee, her dog, Catholic school and her later relationship with nuns, co-owning an independent book store, writing and writing workshops, book tours, struggling with the Christian right over a perceived lesbian relationship in her story about a friend and fellow author (culminating in a protest over her speaking at Clemson U. in SC)....just so much I enjoyed. I think I actually liked this more than the novels of hers I've read.