My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married
2015
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
194
Number of Pages
Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married, he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the balm of blues harmonica to grand theft auto and the staying power of first kisses. He riffs on cockroaches, hockey, romance novels, Boy Scout hikes, and the challenge of parenting a child through high-stakes Texas T-ball. With honesty and wit, Franklin explores what it takes to raise three boys, succeed in a relationship, and survive as a modern man. My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married is an uplifting rumination on learning from the past and living for the present, a hopeful take on being a man without being a menace to society.
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
65
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
23%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Joey Franklin
Author · 3 books
Joey Franklin is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He currently serves as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and coordinates the MFA program at Brigham Young. His active projects include a memoir about the saints and scoundrels in his family tree, and a practical guide to professionalization in creative writing.
