The cereal is gone. The shirt came out of the dryer three sizes smaller. Both sets of in-laws are arriving at six, and neither Omar nor Leena remembers inviting either of them.


Omar teaches English to teenage boys who could roast a statue. Leena runs a household, a budget, and a laundry pile with more personality than most houseplants. They have been married two years. They live in a small Chicago apartment above a dog that barks exactly seven times every morning at nothing. And they are figuring it out one ridiculous day at a time.

Then comes the sink that fights back, the television Omar absolutely did not go to the store to buy, a stolen marker collection with its own memorial plaques, and two pink lines on a test strip that change everything.

No cheating. No third act betrayal. No villain. Just two people who keep choosing each other on ordinary Tuesdays.


WHAT'S INSIDE

Ten connected chapters that read as one continuous story — start it after dinner, finish it before bed

A "Little Love Note" closing every chapter: one small, practical idea you can try in your own marriage this week

Completely clean throughout — no profanity, no bedroom scenes, nothing you would mind your mother reading over your shoulder

A Black couple in Chicago, written with warmth, specificity, and a lot of affection

Written by a board-certified family physician who has spent two decades listening to real marriages describe themselves


PERFECT FOR FANS OF

Cozy, low-stakes romantic comedy where the crisis is a shrunken shirt, not a betrayal

Married-couple romance — the love story that begins after the wedding

Clean and wholesome reads with genuine laughs

In-law comedy and the beautiful disaster of two families at one small table

Short, warm books for the end of a long day


WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

"A breath of fresh air, and very well written."

— Mommerz

"It really took me back to my first year of marriage."

— Margo J.

"A book that had a lesson revealed at the end of each chapter."

— colleen


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Rabea Hadi is a board-certified family physician who writes narrative fiction and educational nonfiction. Years of family medicine is years of listening to people describe their actual lives — the marriages, the money arguments, the in-laws, the small ridiculous crises that turn out to be the whole story. Patients may kept teaching him the same thing: what holds a life together is rarely dramatic. It is someone remembering which cereal you like. That is where Omar and Leena came from.


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