Mike Greenberg. (2015). My Father's Wives: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Mike Greenberg. 2015. My Father's Wives: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Mike Greenberg, My Father's Wives: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2015.

Mike Greenberg. My Father's Wives: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2015.

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     Mike Greenberg is the cohost of ESPN's Mike and Mike, the highest-rated sports talk program in the United States, and the author of the New York Times bestselling books All You Could Ask For, Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot, and Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a native of New York City. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.

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The co-host of ESPN's Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man's search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father.

Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father.

Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son's life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, now dead, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after Jonathan's mother.

Jonathan hasn't thought about Percy or the hole he left in his life for years. Dedicated to Claire and his family, he's nothing like his serial monogamist father. But then Jonathan discovers evidence that everything in his marriage may not be as perfect as he thought. Hurt and uncertain what to do, he knows that the only way to move forward is to go back.

On this quest for understanding—about himself, about manhood, about marriage—Jonathan decides to track down his father's five ex-wives. His journey will take him from cosmopolitan cities to the mile-high mountains to a tropical island—and ultimately back to confront the one thing Jonathan has that his father never did: home.

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     November 15, 2014
     Two weeks in the life of a man who caught his wife in flagrante delicto-or did he?When Wall Street executive Jonathan Sweetwater returns home early-an unlikely occurrence since he's usually jetting around the country at the beck and call of Bruce, a hoops-obsessed CEO who likes to go one-on-one on private NBA-caliber courts-he hears the unmistakable sound of a tryst emanating from a guest bedroom in his Connecticut mansion. A glimpse through the keyhole confirms his worst fears-he sees the backs of two naked people, a long-haired man sitting on the Frette sheets getting dressed and a woman resembling his wife, Claire, walking into the bathroom. Without making his presence known, beyond leaving his briefcase in the living room, Jonathan takes off on another trip. A cat-and-mouse game unfolds: Which spouse is going to admit what to whom and who is going to do it first? Every time Jonathan tries to confront his wife, he is interrupted, in one case by his surprise 40th birthday party. Such a coincidence-dependent plotline threatens to grow wearying, until Greenberg shifts focus to back story-Jonathan embarks on an inquiry about his late father, Percy, a charismatic senator who left his mother when Jonathan was 9 and married five more times. Jonathan has the resources to investigate Percy's serial monogamy himself while he waits for a private detective's report on Claire. Greenberg is adept at description and dialogue. The basketball scenes, predictably for this ESPN sportscaster, are compelling-in one, Jonathan challenges Michael Jordan. Jonathan's conversations with his mother, and the five other wives, in colorful locales-Manhattan, Chicago, Aspen, Nevis and London-are entertaining even if they generate scant insight into Percy's behavior or its relevance to the burning question at hand-did she or didn't she? There's a superfluous subplot involving Bruce's penchant for blackmailing employees. Ultimately, Greenberg paints himself into narrative corners where the only exits are marked with cliches.Much dribbling punctuated by a few slam dunks.

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     January 1, 2015
     Jonathan Sweetwater has it allbeautiful wife, two loving children, and rewarding Wall Street careeruntil he comes home early one day and sees his wife, Claire, in bed with another man. Jonathan decides he won't say anything to Claire about his discovery until he's had time to process, but he soon realizes he can't fully understand his relationship with his wife until he understands his relationship with his father. Percival Sweetwater III was largely absent from Jonathan's life, and the high-profile U.S. senator passed away not long ago. Jonathan decides to visit each of his late father's wives to gain some much-needed closure and marital perspective. Greenberg, cohost of the ESPN sports radio program, Mike and Mike, imbues his second novel with an autobiographical sense of purpose and undeniable honesty. He wraps up the events of My Father's Wives with a too-tidy bow, but the bulk of the novel is a highly enjoyable walk through Jonathan's foggy past, tumultuous present, and imagined future. Fans of Joshua Henkin and Emma Straub will enjoy Greenberg's wry, unflinching domestic fiction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father.

Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son's life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, now dead, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after Jonathan's mother.

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