The Monk Upstairs

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Heavenly Ever After?When Rebecca Martin finds the love of her life, it's finally time to cross off one giant task from life's to-do list. But not so fast.Farrington plants a contemplative ex-monk in a drafty Sunset District row house, where silent meditation collides with overdue bills and school-morning scrambles. The novel surrounds the newlyweds with an unscripted household, balancing church candles against the noisy chaos of family life.The house on Thirty-eighth Avenue shelters an affectionate domestic muddle, where an irrepressible ex-husband takes a sledgehammer to the kitchen wall. The wedding is a minor disaster, the honeymoon doesn't get much better, and then the biggest shock of all--living together as monk and wife. Romantic Comedy: A harried graphic artist navigates married life with a former monk who prays in the attic, forgets to check his watch, and buys deep-fried bakery pastries for breakfast. Opposites Attract: While Rebecca juggles freelance graphics deadlines and unpaid health insurance, Mike takes an underpaid hospice job at a downtown Tenderloin mission and tutors seven-year-olds in quiet contemplation. San Francisco Setting: The coastal chill of the Outer Sunset frames an unconventional household bounded by N-Judah streetcars, Golden Gate Park soccer matches, and stubborn backyard poppies. Also by This Author: The Monk Downstairs and Lizzie's War.