A Happy Marriage by Rafael YglesiasPublisher: Scribner 2009
Hardback 371 pages
What constitutes the perfect marriage? Does it come from faithfulness or having an almost blind devotion to your significant other? Or maybe it comes only after years of living together, experiencing the challenges, sorrows and joy that life brings.
A Happy Marriage is an autobiographical novel, celebrating the love and marriage of Rafael Yglesias to his wife, Margaret Joskow, who died in 2004 of bladder cancer. Yglesias has chosen to express this not in a true memoir, but in a fictionalized novel of the turbulent relationship between Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret. The novel alternates between the courtship and early marriage of Enrique and Margaret and scenes of Margaret's losing battle with cancer.
This novel is both a touching picture of a blossoming relationship and a painful tale of betrayal, forgiveness and redemption. If there is anything I learned from the story of these two people is that a perfect marriage is anything but. It is a journey fraught with tribulations and heartache, but also unexpected joy. And that sometimes we learn only too late the true meaning of what it is to love another.
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