This is not the story you think it is-- : a season of unlikely happiness / Laura Munson

Are you there, Clarence? it's me, George Bailey's wife -- The cloud of unknowing -- Rilke's world at play in Rumi's field -- Reality, cockroaches, bums in the basement, and microbrew -- Montana -- My father's blue Duesenberg -- The Italy cure -- Epiphany -- No grace period -- My evil twin sister Sheila -- The supercool wife -- The god of the Fourth of July -- The conversation -- Unlikely happiness -- Free fall -- Heart-shaped rock -- Derailed -- Community -- His sister's gift -- The good fight -- Indian summer -- Two balloons -- Thanksgiving -- Epilogue -- The perversely vertical half-cracked and sometimes devoured stack of books on my bedside table.

In this poignant, wise, and often funny memoir, Munson recounts a period of months in which her faith in herself - and her marriage - was put to the test and when she realized that ultimately happiness is completely within her own control.

English.