Pretzel Logic A Novel edition by Lisa Rogak Literature Fiction eBooks
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What would you do if your spouse woke up one day and told you he was gay?
Emily Spencer lived in Coventry, New Hampshire, with her husband Michael, where they published a weekly newspaper and were, by all accounts, happy.
However, after a few years, Michael began to change; he grew quieter and more sullen. The more Emily pressed for an answer, the more he resisted. Finally, one day, she learned her husband's secret Michael was gay.
What follows in Pretzel Logic is at turns bittersweet and hysterically funny as Emily and Michael learn to deal with their own truths. Recent movies like "In and Out" and "The Object of my Affection" have only skimmed the surface. Pretzel Logic, written by a woman who's been there, is the first story to tell it like it is.
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Pretzel Logic is one of those rare novels that speaks the truth. With humor and pathos, insight and fairness, Rogak examines a tragic dilemma without ever losing sight of her characters' humanity. Pretzel Logic forces the reader to think twice about sexual orientation, what makes a good marriage work, and what is worth fighting for. It is not a story you have read before. But it is a story people will be talking about for quite some time. -- M.J. Rose, author of Lip Service
Crisply written with a keen sense of place and vivid action, Pretzel Logic brings to life one wife's struggle to understand when her husband turns out to be gay. -- Amity Pierce Buxton, Ph.D., author of The Other Side of the Closet The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families
Pretzel Logic A Novel edition by Lisa Rogak Literature Fiction eBooks
I love Lisa's writing style - conversational, humorous, and painfully honest. Although the first chapter didn't hook me as well as it could have, it was worth my while to keep reading; it got better. I think the book was a tad hard on the gay spouse, portraying him as impossibly hostile most of the time, while the straight spouse was improbably forgiving and submissive. In reality, most marriages would not have lasted as long as this one did. And I didn't buy the "let me find out what it's like to have sex with the same sex" scenario. It didn't ring true. Either you want to or you don't. A straight person isn't going to find out what it's like by picking up someone in a bar.Other than that, I couldn't put the book down!
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Pretzel Logic A Novel edition by Lisa Rogak Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
PRETZEL LOGIC by Lisa Rogak Williams Hill Publishing ISBN # 0-9652502-4-5 Fiction Trade paperback 256 pages Pub Date 06 / 99
Read the first few sentences of PRETZEL LOGIC and you will find yourself sitting in a bustling sidewalk cafe chatting up a lifelong friend that it just happened to take until now to meet. She is telling you of her highs and lows and you are there with her and for her.
Your dear friend is a talented writer, a newswoman, who, after meeting the man she needed to love, married him, moved back home and bought the local weekly to fulfill their lifelong dream.
One little problem....
The love of her life is gay and she doesn't mean gay as in happy.
You sit there, more than a wee bit shocked, as she gives you a taste of her pain and sorrow, love and joy. You cry and commiserate. You laugh and love her all the more. You get up and hug her while wishing you could share it with all those she has shared with you.
This is a marvelous book! I'm so very glad that Lisa gave me the opportunity to read it.
Why am I glad? Well, beside the obvious, I would not have read it on my own. Why? I would've assumed it to be an artsy-fartsy fictionalized case study, dry and boring me to tears.
No how and no way!
Oh yes, there were tears. I cried. Yes, indeedy-deed. However, those tears were most certainly not from boredom.
Lisa is gifted with a wonderful talent. She makes her characters live,
true. But not only that, she writes them in such a way that you cannot help but connect. She imbues them with the quirks and foibles that we see within ourselves, recognize, and identify. Thus, we love them. After all, who better to love us than ourselves.
I do have to tell you that the language and situations get pretty graphic at times. If that makes you uncomfortable in a way that you cannot handle then you should avoid PRETZEL LOGIC. Though I often feel that, in the right
circumstances, uncomfortable is good and can effect change.
PRETZEL LOGIC is not, by any means, mere fluff. This is heavy duty literature with some powerful issues tacked head on.
Plus, this has just got to be made into a movie. It'd make for a fantastic actors showcase and an absolutely riveting few hours.
Thank you, Lisa.
Lisa Rogak, Pretzel Logic (Williams Hill Press, 1999)
Lisa Rogak has written a pretty darn fine novel, but unfortunately couldn't get it published by a major. So instead she went to a small, regional press with this book, which has probably kept it from getting a wide enough distribution to reach the audience it deserves.
Pretzel Logic is the story of a married couple who move back to the wife's hometown and take over the weekly paper. All is going swimmingly until the husband starts fighting past demons he thought he had conquered in his adolescence, finally capitulating to them and (while masking it in various ways) coming out of the closet.
The storyline isn't anything terribly new. We've all seen it before over the past twenty years more than once. What makes Pretzel Logic worthwhile is Rogak's easygoing style, somewhat rare in journalists, especially rare in journalists writing autobiographical novels and there are quite a few clues lying around to give this away as an autobiographical novel). Rogak is still close to her material, to be sure, but that doesn't stop her from recognizing, and telling, a good story around it.
It is entirely possible that the way Rogak approaches the subject matter is what stopped the book from getting published. Various episodes in the book, from an offhand comment made early on to Rogak's attempt at sleeping with another woman are not handled with one iota of political correctness, which would no doubt cause most publishers to shy well away from this book. At the same time, the political incorrectness of the book doesn't come off as offensive as much as it comes off honest (and if you can't tell the difference between the two, you can both stop reading this review right now and avoid this book like the plague. Those with chips on their shoulders are guaranteed to be offended by this book). In other words, as often happens, the book didn't get a big contract precisely because of the things that make it a good read in the first place. And we wonder why Danielle Steel sells millions of copies. *** ½
Shaw tells a great story that is fiction, though based on her own experience as a woman married to a man she discovers is gay. The rollercoaster ride their marriage goes through and all the thoughts the wife has are so in line with what I am experiencing now while dealing with this issue in my own life. The book deals with the issue with humor and a clarity I haven't found in many other books. I enjoyed it so much I didn't want it to end! Reading it was very thgough provoking and therapeutic.
Even if you aren't dealing with this issue in your own life, you will totally be able to relate to the characters and their relationship.
I love Lisa's writing style - conversational, humorous, and painfully honest. Although the first chapter didn't hook me as well as it could have, it was worth my while to keep reading; it got better. I think the book was a tad hard on the gay spouse, portraying him as impossibly hostile most of the time, while the straight spouse was improbably forgiving and submissive. In reality, most marriages would not have lasted as long as this one did. And I didn't buy the "let me find out what it's like to have sex with the same sex" scenario. It didn't ring true. Either you want to or you don't. A straight person isn't going to find out what it's like by picking up someone in a bar.
Other than that, I couldn't put the book down!
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