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Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. In fact, he is strangely hostile to the institution. So Cook is naturally uneasy about his job with a St. Louis firm specializing in "the linguistically troubled marriage."
His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an impoverished relationship, to analyze their problems with verbal communication and help them-if he can. But as Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and signals, he becomes increasingly, and unscientifically, involved . . .
His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an impoverished relationship, to analyze their problems with verbal communication and help them-if he can. But as Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and signals, he becomes increasingly, and unscientifically, involved . . .
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Reviews
"A comic chronicle of marital misunderstandings . . . Eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive…"
Los Angeles Times
"Read this terrific book."
Los Angeles Times
"With humor and insight, Mr. Carkeet's fourth novel addresses the commonest of social diseases-a failing marriage-with the least likely of therapies: a live-in linguist."
The New York Times Book Review
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- SeriesJeremy Cook #2