Ten Percent Marriage
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Robert Henry Wright, Jr., a resident of the Idaho Panhandle since 1988, has published Ten Percent Marriage, a second novel set in the Sandpoint, Idaho, area. Wright categorizes Ten Percent Marriage as a love story, an action story, and as personal relations in an outdoor setting.
To escape the horror of a sadistic sexual assault that had left her with an illegitimate child and a shattered life before that life could begin, Emily has been living in a cabin at Arrowhead Point beside Lake Pend d’Oreille in northern Idaho. She had exiled herself there thirty years ago at age seventeen.
Harvey considers himself to be one of God’s chosen losers, as he had lost at everything he had truly wanted to win: the state high school football championship; his son; and his wife. The final blow was having been presented with an early retirement package and shown to the door. Aimless and defeated, he goes to see a piece of land he had won in a bouré game years before; the land is located at Arrowhead Point beside Lake Pend d’Oreille in northern Idaho.
Emily and Harvey meet; they clash; they become attracted to each other; but there are obstacles to overcome. Harvey discovers that there are two Emilys: Ewón and Etú. Ewón is the dominant personality, a passionate artist who has a well developed phobia of males. Etú is fun loving, flirtatious, reckless, and has a mania for males. To Harvey’s dismay, Emily is Ewón for ninety percent of the time and Etú for the remaining ten percent. Oth
About the Author
Robert Henry Wright Jr. was born in Puerto Cabezas, Republic of Nicaragua, Central America. He immigrated to Texas, USA, at the age of ten. After high school, he served in the USAF; had a brief stint at the University of Texas; and then settled into the petroleum industry, working in sales and service in the drilling and production segments—from Comodoro Rivadavia to the North Slope of Alaska—until taking early retirement in 1988. His occupational travels included a one year residency at Buenos Aires during 1962. After retirement at age fifty-six, Robert and his wife, Carol, began anew when they moved from bustling Houston to a remote ten acres on the north fork of Grouse Creek in the Idaho Panhandle to pursue his desire to write. At Grouse Creek they adapted to living without municipal amenities—without electricity, water, telephone, etc. The Wrights came in from the woods in 2001, moving into nearby Sandpoint where they reside today. Robert Henry Wright, Jr. is the author of The Sandpoint Trilogy which comprises the three novels Apology to Grouse Creek, Ten Percent Marriage, and All Things Flow. He is also the author of the novella Papelón.