My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married, he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the balm of blues harmonica to grand theft auto and the staying power of first kisses. He riffs on cockroaches, hockey, romance novels, Boy Scout hikes, and the challenge of parenting a child through high-stakes Texas T-ball. With honesty and wit, Franklin explores what it takes to raise three boys, succeed in a relationship, and survive as a modern man. My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married is an uplifting rumination on learning from the past and living for the present, a hopeful take on being a man without being a menace to society. Access free teaching resources.

Author: Joey Franklin
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780803278448

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2015
Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 107
Shelf Awareness 11/10/2015

About the Author

Joey Franklin is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. His writing has appeared in the Writer's Chronicle, Poets and Writers magazine, the Norton Reader, and Gettysburg Review. His piece "Working at Wendy's" won the 2006 Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers contest.