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The Marriage That Learned to Bend
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798197135933
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 628
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 628
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when two people realize they stayed married... but stopped truly seeing each other somewhere along the way?
Garrett Holloway has spent decades building his life around racing. Saturday nights at the dirt track gave him purpose, identity, and a place to outrun the quieter fears he never learned how to name. Reliable, hardworking, and respected in the racing community, Garrett believes staying faithful and providing for his family means he's done marriage right.
Garrett Holloway has spent decades building his life around racing. Saturday nights at the dirt track gave him purpose, identity, and a place to outrun the quieter fears he never learned how to name. Reliable, hardworking, and respected in the racing community, Garrett believes staying faithful and providing for his family means he's done marriage right.
Evie Holloway once believed that too.
But after years of quietly supporting everyone else's dreams, Evie begins rediscovering parts of herself she buried long ago-including her writing. When her deeply personal online stories about marriage, loneliness, sacrifice, and emotional invisibility begin resonating with thousands of readers, uncomfortable truths rise to the surface inside her own relationship.
For the first time in years, Garrett and Evie are forced to confront the life they built together-not the dramatic version from the outside, but the quieter reality underneath it:
the conversations they stopped having,
the dreams quietly boxed away,
and the difference between staying married and truly connecting.
Set against the backdrop of Upstate New York dirt-track racing culture, The Marriage That Learned to Bend is a deeply emotional and beautifully observant novel about long marriage, emotional survival, identity, aging, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to become fully visible again before time runs out.
Perfect for readers who love:
Others learn how to bend.
But after years of quietly supporting everyone else's dreams, Evie begins rediscovering parts of herself she buried long ago-including her writing. When her deeply personal online stories about marriage, loneliness, sacrifice, and emotional invisibility begin resonating with thousands of readers, uncomfortable truths rise to the surface inside her own relationship.
For the first time in years, Garrett and Evie are forced to confront the life they built together-not the dramatic version from the outside, but the quieter reality underneath it:
the conversations they stopped having,
the dreams quietly boxed away,
and the difference between staying married and truly connecting.
Set against the backdrop of Upstate New York dirt-track racing culture, The Marriage That Learned to Bend is a deeply emotional and beautifully observant novel about long marriage, emotional survival, identity, aging, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to become fully visible again before time runs out.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Emotional contemporary women's fiction
- Realistic marriage and relationship stories
- Small-town and racing community settings
- Character-driven family drama
- Stories about second chances and emotional healing
- Quiet, reflective fiction with heart
Others learn how to bend.
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