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The Monk Upstairs
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780060859565
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: Apr 29 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Heavenly Ever After?
When Rebecca Martin finds the love of her life, it's finally time to cross off one giant task from life's to-do list. But not so fast.
Farrington plants a contemplative ex-monk in a drafty Sunset District row house, where silent meditation collides with overdue bills and school-morning scrambles. The novel surrounds the newlyweds with an unscripted household, balancing church candles against the noisy chaos of family life.
The house on Thirty-eighth Avenue shelters an affectionate domestic muddle, where an irrepressible ex-husband takes a sledgehammer to the kitchen wall. The wedding is a minor disaster, the honeymoon doesn't get much better, and then the biggest shock of all--living together as monk and wife.
- Romantic Comedy: A harried graphic artist navigates married life with a former monk who prays in the attic, forgets to check his watch, and buys deep-fried bakery pastries for breakfast.
- Opposites Attract: While Rebecca juggles freelance graphics deadlines and unpaid health insurance, Mike takes an underpaid hospice job at a downtown Tenderloin mission and tutors seven-year-olds in quiet contemplation.
- San Francisco Setting: The coastal chill of the Outer Sunset frames an unconventional household bounded by N-Judah streetcars, Golden Gate Park soccer matches, and stubborn backyard poppies.
- Also by This Author: The Monk Downstairs and Lizzie's War.
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