A modern love story told in two halves — before and after the wedding day.
The first half of this novel is the love story. The second half is what happened next.
I Loved You Until I Got Married is told in two voices, two registers, and two unequal halves — a structural choice that mirrors the experience of many marriages, and refuses the easy comfort of either despair or redemption.
It is a difficult, generous, sometimes very funny book about the gap between the people who fall in love and the people who, years later, find themselves still in the same house.
A short passage. The full opening is available in the Kindle preview, or by request from the house.
On the day of the wedding she was certain. On the day after she was less so. By the end of the first month she had begun, very quietly, to take notes.
She was not yet sure what they were for.