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Diary of a Married Man
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He learned to say okay before he learned to say help.
She has attitude and spine. Their kids interrupt from the next room. In every room but one, he defends her. At home he is still unlearning the quiet that kept him safe as a boy-the boy who counted ceiling tiles while the house got loud.
*Diary of a Married Man* is a quiet literary novel about a marriage that sometimes feels borrowed and still contains hope. Kitchen light. Grocery aisles. Arguments that trail into dishes. A suitcase left by the door. A man who will not speak ill of his wife-and who finally has to tell the truth anyway.
No fireworks. No guru. Just the long work of staying, and the stubborn love of a loud house he chose.
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