Review: Made To Break Your Heart: A Man's Perspective About His Family And Temptations Of Infidelity
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- September 26, 2018
Made to Break Your Heart tells the story of Nick Marhoffer, a married father of one. When his son, Wesley starts to play baseball, Nick becomes the team coach and quickly becoming involved to the point of obsession with Little League as a way of escaping the stresses of his everyday life. Very soon he becomes
READ MORESummary: It’s good to live in a community where people watch out for each other — except when they scrutinize you a bit too closely. Nick Marhoffer and his wife, Marcy, live in Misty Hill, an upper middle-class suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Nick is a journalist for the local newspaper and Marcy works for a
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READ MOREMisty Hill is a town where everyone knows everyone’s business and Nick Marhoffer found this out the hard way. After signing up for coach of his son’s new baseball team, meeting the hot and sexy Diet Coke Mom, and losing his job at the newspaper during the great recession, the stress was unbearable. When conceivable,
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READ MORERichard Fellinger talks with Book Glow about the writing of Made to Break Your Heart. The novel is available from Amazon and Open Books Direct. BG: Describe the book in one sentence. RF: A rabid Little League dad can’t control his anxieties and bad impulses, which push his relationships with his wife and only son
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