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Jul 13th, 2009 at 9:14 am

A Happy Marriage

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Tyler Cowen reviews my father’s new novel A Happy Marriage: “I devoured this book eagerly on a plane flight and I recommend it highly to those who are married, have been married, will be married, should be married, and should not be married . . . In my view Rafael Yglesias is one of the best American novelists of the last twenty years and probably the most underappreciated.”

DC-area reader should know that dad will be at Politics & Prose on July 23 at 7PM for a reading. You can read an excerpt on the Wall Street Journal’s site where it was one of their recommended summer fiction reads.

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9 Responses to “A Happy Marriage”

doug Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 10:40 am
That’s sweet. You’re a good son. (Not being sarcastic.)
Brent Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 10:54 am
My dad works for a struggling bank and sells mortgages. Damn you.
NImed Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:01 am
So, what’s the book about?

Seriously now, what about the NYC area reader?
pseudonymous in nc Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:57 am
“DC area reader”, indeed.

(I almost hope that Yglesias père watches this blog’s ongoing casual abuse of the English language through his fingers.)
minderbender Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Agree with NImed – what about NYC-area reader?
Linkmeister Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
While your book is in my library, this one is not. Is this a filial one-upsmanship opportunity?
ACLS Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Linkmeister: Just as a wild guess, maybe that’s because it just came out?
cmholm Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
This suggests an answer to the question I first saw posed in Calvin & Hobbes: is the expense of raising your kid a gift or a loan?
Linkmeister Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Hey, ACLS, why should that get in the way of father-son games?

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