Lily Tuck

Potent and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. His hand is growing cold, still she holds it is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still...

A collection of stories spanning the twentieth century and almost every continent reveals the passions, secrets, fears, and tragedies among lovers, spouses, landlords and tenants, and lifelong friends.