Ambivalence a Love Story: Portrait of a Marriage

Ambivalence a Love Story is a deeply nuanced accounting in which two people come together to make a marriage work. Rarely has marriage and its compromises been so intimately portrayed especially when tested by depression unemployment miscarriage and other realities of contemporary life. Whether inside the sterile out-placement offices for reengineered executives or traipsing through the suburban homes and competing lifestyles with perky realtors Donatich muses on lifes transitions with rare candor and insight. . Ambivalence traces the inner life of a man coming into adulthood: on being first generation on interfaith marriage on playing the accordion and ultimately on the question of whether we are better off solitary or coupled. But at heart it is a tender -- if circumspect -- love story. An astonishing middle-aged debut.