Short Marriage

A mystical family soap opera set in Madagascar, where Destiny takes hold of two young people—resisting their fate to be married—in this dazzling debut infused with wit and whimsy, perfect for fans of Kiran Desai and Charmaine Wilkerson. The year is 1972. In an island nation off the coast of...

Updated with Discussion Questions and Two Bonus Chapters When you say “I do,” you begin the journey of a lifetime― and you have dreams of that journey being perfect. But it won’t take long for expectations of the perfect marriage to fade away in the struggles of everyday life. A...

Some marriages shouldn't be left to Fate. On an island in the Indian Ocean, Destiny is making plans. It's 1972, and over the next decades, one unlikely couple will become entangled in a prophecy - and the consequences are chaotic. Welcome to wild, hilarious, immersive epic tale from Madagascan...

When Ava Barnes’s boyfriend, Justin, proposes after a whirlwind romance, the young couple embarks on a quest that will test their love. For generations, engaged couples in Ava’s family have traveled into the Everglades to retrieve the egg of the magnificent frigate bird in order to bake it into a marriage cake. Those who succeed live happily ever after, while those who fail are destined for heartbreak. With Ava’s beloved grandmother gravely ill, never has the marriage tradition meant so much. 

The keys go in the bowl, and the wives draw blind.Why does this one keep pulling you back the sight of your own husband's taillights leaving the driveway with another man's wife beside him?Twenty explicit short stories to listen to, every one a different swap: full or soft, same room or separate...

From an award-winning author, wildly inventive stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives External pressures abound in modern-day life: familial expectations, the homogenizing forces of work and society, unyielding political realities. But the characters in Chen Chuncheng’s eerily...

A daring debut that captures “elegant depictions of lives and places…full of the quiet power…of a fever dream” (The Los Angeles Times Book Review) Mary Caponegro’s The Star Café is a bold and original collection that explores how we experience the world through language, through the...

A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage, 2nd Edition is a concise explanation of the essentials for a long-lasting marriage. Marriage should be thought of as a creative work in progress. Just as the artist or writer has times when his or her work flows and all is going well, so does a marriage...

Ten classic short stories offering a feminine perspective on marriage written from 1891 to 1917 from such classic authors as Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, and others. These works present an early and poignant perspective on the institution of marriage, its role in society, and the personal beauty and pain that can be found within its bonds.

The Marriage of a Marquis is the inaugural volume of the Palik series from the North American Jules Verne Society and BearManor Media. It includes two of Jules Verne’s early humorous stories in their first English translation: “The Marriage of Mr. Anselme des Tilleuls” (translated by...