Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

Author:Harrison Scott Key
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

He was haunted by the specter of Talent and on some days he really believed he had it—but mainly he forgot about it, and focused indefatigably on self-promotion.

—WILLIAM MONAHAN, Light House

NOW THAT THE BOOK WAS FINISHED, I KNEW IT WAS TIME to show it to Lauren, because while it was about my father, it also turned out to be about other people, including her, and more specifically, her reproductive system.

She’d been in my stories before. Back then, she was fine with it. She was always saying these funny lines, and it was too good not to use this stuff. She was feeding me good intel about the world. So I used a funny line in a story? She didn’t care. That’s how it starts. With innocence. With generosity.

What I wrote about her and us and our sexual war games was not lewd, but it was, well—

A lot, she said, via text, after she read it.

I know.

A lot.

I love you! I said. You smell pretty, I bet.

We talked about the difficult chapters, where I laid our marriage bare for all the world to laugh and wince at. Truth is what I was after, and I was hoping my wife knew that.

“But this part,” she said, pointing. “This part seems a little too true.”

And she was right. I softened the edges, where I could, which actually made the book more humane and funnier, which blew my mind. There she went again, softening me. My lovely non-reader wife turned out to be an amazing reader and editor.

“Thank you for letting me say all this,” I said.

“Now go buy me a house with more bathrooms,” she said.

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