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  <title>Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 4)</title>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Madeleine L'Engle and her husband lived the era of my grandparents to the fullest. Both artists and what I might call &quot;staunch&quot; Americans (when that term used to denote a very specific set of values and goals) through World War II and the Cold War, their story seems old-fashioned to a reader in the 21st century. Yet the interiority of their marriage and their family life, which L'Engle shares in great detail with almost no self-consciousness but rather just a slight circumspection as a result of her deep sense of etiquette, is readily comprehensible to any reader who has felt romantic love. L'Engle's memoir is all the more tragic and touching as her husband is dying of cancer throughout her narration, and one cannot help but draw comparisons with Joan Didion's The Year of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking" title="The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion">Magical Thinking</a>. My unconditional recommendation of this book does come with a warning however: I found myself crying all over the city as I read, including cafes and multiple subway cars. <br/><br/>   ]]></body>
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