Book description
With one night to remember a lifetime, I Married You for Happiness is a
riveting and deeply moving love story.
“His hand is growing cold, still she holds it.”
The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits
at the bedside of her husband Philip. There she recalls the defining
moments of their long marriage, the intimacies, dark secrets and
overwhelming joys that shaped their lives.
Moving, powerful, and utterly engaging, I Married You for Happiness is
a riveting portrait of a forty-three-year-old marriage and a meditation
on how chance can affect both a life and love. Praise for 'I Married
You For Happiness':
“Captivating . . . Absorbing… You also won't un-read this odd little
book once you've finished it. It will make you chafe. It will strike a
chord.” - Marie Arana, The Washington Post
“In mourning, the only comfort of science is to assert the uncertainty
of all that appears real. And perhaps that is what this slight, plangent
novel is telling us: that character is unreadable, that memory is
perilous.” - Colin Thubron, NYT
“This slim brush of a book manages to accomplish in a mere 200-plus
pages what many novelists try to do in twice the verbiage. . . .
Examines the disguises and surprises that energize a lasting
marriage.”-Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times
“A magical, truthful tale.”- Huffington Post Lily Tuck was born in
Paris and is the author of four previous novels - Interviewing Matisse,
The Woman Who Walked on Water, the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Siam and
The News From Paraguay, which won the National Book Award - as well as a
collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction
has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New
York City.
