ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE by LOUISE FARMER SMITH "Note To Reader: What was your father thinking the night he proposed to your mother? Why did she say yes? By the time we ask, all the compelling details have cooled into whatever myths they've chosen to tell us. Our grandparents' stories are even more frozen, and the truths of our great-grandparents' unions have perished in the airless memories of the dead." In a series of interlocked stories Louise Farmer Smith, the author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE, pierces the myths through four generations of one American family's mismatched marriages-the teenage girl lifted out of the hunger and chaos that followed the Civil War; the suicidal wife isolated on the Oklahoma prairie; the struggling milliner bound to a cheerful husband whose improvidence is destroying the family. Dark? Yes, but full of humor too. Each of the six stories is told from the point of view of the child who observes his or her parent's marriage and tries with...

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