Robert Cadorette has the perfect life. Just ask him; he ll tell you. He has a wife that loves him, a baby on the way, and he is a successful business man. The only problem is, none of that is true. Miranda Cadorette is a career woman that knows there s a problem in her marriage. She doesn t understand why Robert won t communicate with her the way she would like. Her friends say dump him. Dr. Peter Frakes is the psychiatrist that tries to make sense of a man who believes his own lies and a woman that just wants her marriage to work. Through it all is Angelo, Robert s long-lost friend from...

Robert Cadorette has the perfect life. Just ask him; he ll tell you. He has a wife that loves him, a baby on the way, and he is a successful business man. The only problem is, none of that is true. Miranda Cadorette is a career woman that knows there s a problem in her marriage. She doesn t understand why Robert won t communicate with her the way she would like. Her friends say dump him. Dr. Peter Frakes is the psychiatrist that tries to make sense of a man who believes his own lies and a woman that just wants her marriage to work. Through it all is Angelo, Robert s long-lost friend from...

When you have nothing left, is there any strength to bring you back? Anorexia gripped Jim Kohl when he was 34 and held him prisoner for almost 2 years. Skeletal Marriage shows how Jim started on the anorexic path, the games it made him play with calories and treadmill miles, the way it ended his marriage, and how it nearly killed him. Anorexia is a character with a mind of its own in the book. Jim listens to the anorexic voice and builds its strength until he has no choice but to listen and obey. Jim weighed nothing, was nothing, and still survived to write this book.

Michael Pencher works as a middle school English teacher, but he doesn't have to. His wife, Wendy, brings home enough money to keep him, a fact her father never lets him live down. High blood pressure limits Michael's diet choices, his hair is gone, and he has a shameful tattoo of a mushroom on his shoulder. A student asks Michael what kind of person "he was back in the day," and Michael struggles for an answer. Buying a car helped other men in this situation, so Michael goes "just to look." He takes a 1968 Mustang for a test ride through the fog and ends up in his past at a time when his...