Our Marriage Counselor

Jonathan Meltzer, a marriage coun selor at the Jamaica, Queens Family Center, falls in love with the wife of a married couple he is counseling. The husband, Thaddeus Carmichael, almost immediately discerns what is going on and decides to encourage a romance between his beautiful wife, Beverly, and Jonathan. Thaddeus wants to catch them doing some thing so that he can sue the hell out of the Jamaica Family Center and collect a huge financial settlement. Jonathan further complicates his life by letting his infatuation for Beverly become known to his super acerbic girlfriend, Arlene, during a fuzzy pot-filled interlude. Mean while, Jonathan’s new-age shrink, Timothy Mitchell, in-between his own breakdowns, advises Jonathan to go right ahead and do what he has to do. In addition to being a very funny novel, Our Marriage Counselor explores ethnic issues in a com pletely open, honest, and frank light. The novel plays around with nor mally heavy themes without itself being heavy in the least