A beautifully told, often humorous, unusual and also universal love story.
An enticing memoir for readers of Dani Shapiro\'s Hourglass , Bess Kalb\'s Nobody Will Tell You This But Me , and Heather Havrilesky\'s Foreverland , The Rye Bread Marriage asks, how do the stories we live and the stories we inherit play out in our relationships? After forty years of marriage, Michaele Weissman has a few answers..
Eventually Michaele comes to love rye bread, too.
She realizes at last that rye Bread represents everything about John\'s homeland that he loved and lost.
When he opens a successful company marketing rye bread, Michaele embarks on a European journey in search of her husband\'s origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience.
And opposites attract, right? The life Michaele and John build together intermingles sweetness--their love of good food, entertaining, and family--with complications, including their ethnic and religious differences (Michaele is Jewish
John is not), the trauma John endured as a child during WWII, Michaele\'s thwarted ambitions, and even John\'s preoccupation with Latvian rye.
Or so she thinks.
When they meet again some years later, Michaele is ready.
Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian.
When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down.
A memoir about learning to live with another human being and about how every relationship is a mystery--and a miracle.
A beautifully told, often humorous, unusual and also universal love story
