Kindle Edition Amazon Mark Lichterman Category:  Romance Publisher: Metropolis Ink ISBN-10:  0980721911 Type: Fiction Pages: 733 Copyright: January 28, 2010 ISBN-13: 9780980721911 Price: $4.95 (eBook) Through the fifties into the sixties. Into the start of the space age and American racial integration. Times and characters coincide with history as two young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and wife and eventually responsible parents.                           For Better or Worse Remember...the day a middle-aged woman sat down in a bus, and a Southern  Baptist minister gained national prominence? Remember...the day a mysterious, intermittent "beep, beep, beep..." ushered in the dawn of the space age? Remember...the day two American armies stood face to face at a Little Rock high school with bayoneted rifles that ushered in America's dawn of integration?   Remember...the day America tottered on the brink of nuclear war? Remember...the day a line was drawn in the ocean, and the other guy blinked? Remember...the winter day when America forever lost its innocence?                                     For Better or Worse                                                                Seven year s that changed the history of the world and the complexion of America. Taking place in New York City, Chicago and Peoria Illinois and the state of Michigan.   Characterizations and situations coinciding with historical events. Paths crossed when he was five years old while crossing a street with his mother on the west side of Chicago. Eerily foretelling the young man's future, the same old man seen in  Brighton Beach, New York... seventeen years later. Through seven years as two familiar young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and wife and, eventually, responsible parents. Realistically written: humanly and sometimes comically visually sexual.   Be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines through the history of the mid-1950's into the '60's.                                    The sequel to "Becoming"                        Excerpt Realistically written, humanly, visually sexual, be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines through the history of the mid-1950's into the ’60's.

For Better or Worse
This book is a fascinating story of a young man who has a true "love/hate" relationship with his young wife. Both struggle with problem over money, children and their respective parents. The author has pulled from personal experience [always a solid foundation] and woven in fictional relationships and memorable moments. At times I forgot this was a novel. The author has a remarkable handle on the descriptive phrase. The story is sound though a bit wordy. I enjoyed revisiting the 50's and 60's through Mitchel's eyes and think you will too.