An Idiot in Marriage
A Novel
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Kieran McCall’s youth was a series of misguided attempts at love—a succession of sexual failures that always ended in disaster but somehow led to something worthwhile. As an adult, his failures looked like they were behind him. He married the love of his life and they had a child together, but chaos was never far away.
An Idiot in Marriage follows Kieran McCall as he learns to live with the strains of married life and parenthood, from dealing with incompetent babysitters and dirty diapers to neighbors from hell, stray ducks, and a best friend who still thinks with his dick.
Kieran McCall grew up, but he never matured and he never changed. He’s still a little immature, he’s still a little naïve, and he’s still massively incompetent. Kieran may be older, but he’s definitely not wiser. And if he doesn’t shape up, he may risk losing it all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jester's slice-of-life sequel to An Idiot in Love is filled with risqu humor and littered with forehead-slapping moments. It's not much of a romance, but it delivers dozens of laughs with a few cleverly disguised moments of thoughtfulness mixed in. Kieran is the titular self-proclaimed "idiot." He's in his 20s and can't keep a job to save his life; instead he takes care of his infant son, Ben, while his wife, Lizzie, has employment that pays the bills. Kieran's life is filled with stunning misadventures and over-the-top friends, especially his best friend, Matthew, a womanizing, vulgar miscreant with delusions of adequacy. Kieran's neighbors are equally absurd and think nothing of accusing him of catnapping. Yet somehow he manages to stumble through life, possibly learning a lesson or two about himself and others along the way including how to function outside the psychiatric facility where he and Lizzie met. The autobiographical style lends itself well to full immersion in the laugh-out-loud situations encountered by Kieran and those unfortunate enough to love him. The delightfully biting, tongue-in-cheek British sensibility occasionally overwhelms, but the ridiculous situations are usually balanced with dashes of normalcy.
