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Ben and Brenda Tremblay should have been enjoying the twilight years of their life together. They should have been spending languid days with their daughter and grandchildren, supported by a universe of friends and savoring quiet hours in a home filled with mementos. But Brenda suffers from Alzheimer's disease in a care hospital, a cruel, final obstacle for a couple who survived profound conflict and unthinkable loss in their 63 years of marriage. Ben is haunted by memories as he struggles to cope. Yet those same thoughts inspire him to savor the remnants of what Brenda's overbearing father once dismissed as "a reasonably viable marriage," as the principles of their wedding vows – love, trust, honesty, fidelity, openness, acceptance, partnership and commonality of purpose and values – are tested again and again. A Reasonably Viable Marriage is a story of love and loss, mistakes and forgiveness, and the human capacity to defy the forces that threaten what matters most.
From the author of Rilertown, Just Go! Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure, and KISS Kooking, comes a novel inspired by the writings of Nguyen Thua Nghiep, a retired Vietnamese oil executive and philosopher whom the author met in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011.
"In addition to becoming a dear friend, Nghiep was a source of inspiration on matters of life, family and love," Yetter says. "A prolific author, Nghiep wrote extensively about the things that matter most in life: love, family, friends. It only made sense to me to wrap a story arc around his ideas, both as a tribute to our friendship, and to memorialize his commitment to those who mattered most to him." Nghiep passed away in 2016 and is buried in a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City.
From the author of Rilertown, Just Go! Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure, and KISS Kooking, comes a novel inspired by the writings of Nguyen Thua Nghiep, a retired Vietnamese oil executive and philosopher whom the author met in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011.
"In addition to becoming a dear friend, Nghiep was a source of inspiration on matters of life, family and love," Yetter says. "A prolific author, Nghiep wrote extensively about the things that matter most in life: love, family, friends. It only made sense to me to wrap a story arc around his ideas, both as a tribute to our friendship, and to memorialize his commitment to those who mattered most to him." Nghiep passed away in 2016 and is buried in a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City.