A man can live with a woman for years and still miss the life she has been carrying in the same room.
A Man About Women is a literary relationship memoir about marriage, silence, and a man forced to face the signs he spent years walking past.
Owen Merrick writes from the far side of ordinary failure. A cup mark on a table, a plant left with instructions, a drawer, a key, a sentence spoken in a tired room, the evidence was always there. The problem was how certain he had been about the story he had built around those signs.
This book follows the small cruelties of being certain, the blind spots inside love, and the quiet ways a woman can disappear while still standing in plain sight.
For readers drawn to intimate memoir, reflective relationship books, marriage stories, and writing about men, women, communication, love, and late recognition, A Man About Women draws its hardest truth from attention: one man, one woman, one house, and the cost of seeing clearly after the damage has already learned its way around the room.
A book a woman may give to the man she loves.
A book a man may give only after he has read it first.
