Marie and the Happy Man

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Synopsis: Marie and the Happy Man

In Marie and the Happy Man, Marie struggles to escape the farm and entices farm-boy Cliff, a romantic and determined optimist, to do the same. Is this any way to start a marriage?

Each brings to the union a set of expectations most likely to destroy or devalue the other. Coleman families typically consist of strong men with compliant women, while Shultz women tend to dominate their compliant spouses. Marie and Cliff are doomed to clash.

Yet, somehow, this marriage will survive over seven decades. Theirs is a love story, full of passion, anger, jealousy, and sometimes tenderness.
 
Both are drawn back time and again to their roots, their families, and the lives they’ve left behind in the Bell City bottom. Marie’s crumbling mental health traumatizes Cliff and their daughters.

This book begins in 1937. Cliff and Marie become the first in their families to graduate from high school. While cities in the United States have benefited from running water, indoor plumbing, and electricity for decades, these luxuries do not find their way to the Bell City bottom in western Kentucky until the 1950s.
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https://www.amazon.com/Past-Present-Debra-Coleman-Jeter/dp/1425745555
www.debracolemanjeter.com
Audio books: https://www.audible.com/author/Debra-Coleman-Jeter/B00UDTPPC6