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AUGUSTA, GA - Humorous and heartfelt, the story of life and love offered in the form of “Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage” by David Valdes Greenwood is a wonderfully crafted exploration into the trials and tribulations of marriage and parenthood in any form.

A freelancer writer who has been published in the Boston Globe in recent memory, David Valdes Greenwood provides an entertaining voice of education in terms of the meaning of marriage. A professor at Tufts University, Valdes Greenwood lives in Massachusetts, and is also the author of “A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays."

We’ve heard the story before a few times. A writer falls in love with a gorgeous dream guy a la Carrie Bradshaw in Candace Bushnell’s “Sex and the City” or Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones's Diary." The difference to the format exists in the fact that the writer is a man named David.

From this starting point, readers are invited into a first hand look at same-sex happily ever after in the real world complete with all the hiccups along the way.

True to form, many obstacles find a way to derail the best-laid plans of husband and husband, and we find David and Jason surviving a number of humorous adventures. From arriving at the wedding without his pants to proposing via homemade calendar, David is a shining romantic in search of completion in the arms of one true love. From a proposal between traffic lights to a constant frugal desire to control spending, Jason finds a home in the common expectations of the average husband. Between the two, readers come into contact with a collaborative effort all too common in relationships of all forms and gender matches.

Sweet and funny throughout, Valdes Greenwood can also be commended for his refusal to dodge difficult subjects in the process of the tale. Within the conflicts of a committed relationship, around the initial scorn of family members, and throughout the political upheavals that arise during their relationship, Jason and David manage to hang onto their sanity and one another with a traditional blend of communication, trust and various degrees of compromise. In so doing, they provide a road map for successful union for both straight and gay couples to come within an entertaining story. More of this review of "Homo Domesticus: Notes From a Same-Sex Marriage"
Metro Spirit - Augusta,GA,USA