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“It’s the story of a happy marriage, but a book about how to live happily without being married.”
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“I love the word “ostensibly,” and I love books that are ostensibly about romantic love but are really about…something else.”
“Dear Reader, there is fox sex in this novel.”
“Even though I’d guessed correctly, I still wish I’d read it sooner.”
“With short chapters and multiple POVs, it is an absolute page-turner, even though most of the plot takes place over the course of only a few days.”
“______________________________ I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn is available from Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan.”
“Despite the book’s title, this collection of essays is as much about Patchett’s life as an artist as it is about her romantic relationships.”
“What follows are some of my favorite titles, both fiction and non-fiction, that complicate and distract from and look askance at the traditional story of two people falling in love and getting married.”
“Their first essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs , was a finalist for The Believer Book Awards.”
“Though Engagement does concern itself with the complications and trials of courtship, the primary difficulty lies within the heart of Martina, the novel’s protagonist.”
“The Book of Love , Kelly Link Last year, I assigned this book in an undergraduate creative writing course before checking the page count—the paperback is a whopping 700+ pages.”
“Despite the length, The Book of Love is a delight to read.”
“Three teenagers are brought back to life in a high school classrooms and no one in their small Massachusetts town except, sometimes, Susannah—the sister of one and the love interest of another—remembers that they were missing.”
“The week of the Bride’s wedding, her dead grandmother returns in the form of a parakeet.”
“Literary Hub » Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn Recommends Gun-Britt Sundström, Kelly Link, Marie Helene Bertino and More Via Flatiron Books Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn August 4, 2026 For the past six years, I’ve been working on a project that I describe to strangers and casual acquaintances as “a book about flowers,” and to friends and family as “a book about flowers and my not-marriage.” Though the book’s narrative throughline is about a cancelled wedding followed by a marriage of convenience, each essay in Flowers pairs a person from my life with a plant I’ve grown in a garden.”