Rafael Yglesias Books In Order

Fearless

Two New Yorkers, strangers with disparate lives, survive a plane crash and find themselves brought together by loss, guilt, and the need to reevaluate their lives, loves, and beliefs. Movie tie in.

Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil

When one of his successfully treated patients commits a vicious murder and then kills himself, a preeminent New York City psychotherapist embarks on a desperate personal mission to discover the root causes of the crime a mission that will bring him face to face with the true nature of evil.

A Happy Marriage

A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret’s life as she says good bye to her family, friends, and children and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, this achingly honest story is about what it means for two people to spend a lifetime together and what makes A Happy Marriage.

Yglesias’s career as a novelist began in 1970 when he wrote an autobiographical novel at sixteen, hailed by critics for its stunning and revelatory depiction of adolescence. A Happy Marriage, his first work of fiction in thirteen years, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, Margaret, who died in 2004. Bold, elegiac, and emotionally suspenseful, even though we know what happens, Yglesias’s beautiful novel will break every reader’s heart while encouraging all of us with its clear eyed evocation of the enduring value of marriage.