It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door. ‘The Story of a Marriage’ portrays three people trapped by the restrictions of their era, and reveals how we can never truly know the ones we love.

Reserved for the OZ VBB.

Beautiful prose and an insightful look into the nuances and ambiguities of a marriage.
A unique story that went in some surprising directions a couple of times. It’s not just a love story, but also a story of war, of courage, of gentleness, of conflicting loyalties, and a story of a certain time in America’s (USA’s) history.


"We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We know them—we are them, sometimes . . . But what we love turns out to be a poor translation, a translation we ourselves have made, from a language we barely know. We try to get past it to the original, but we never can. We have seen it all. But what have we really understood?"

Chosen from the OZ VBB by sofie777, so off on a trip across the continent.
Hope you enjoy it.

Arrived today - thankyou

beautiful story!