Mirth: A Novel

a dazzling portrait of a man who lives up to his name, and of those who love him. A wonderful novel. Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in The Field

Mirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about love and tries to find it through three marriages, in three cities, and always with renewable hope. Amanda is firstNew York City and youth. Maggie is second and spans the middle age yearsUpstate New York. Liz is thirdPittsburgh and the senior years. Harrison Mirth doesnt say much to Liz about life before hera thoughtful comment here and there, funny stories, very little casting of blame. But like a quilt maker, Liz puts these scraps together to make a storyhow she thinks he was as a boy, then a man sheltering a secret lake of sadness, but somehow always upbeat, cheerful, a willful optimist, forever innocent. To her, that is irresistible.