Book Beginnings: Happens Every Day

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies

"One late August afternoon in our new house in Oberlin, Ohio, my husband, Josiah, took it upon himself to wallpaper the bathroom with pictures of our family."

While it might seem like a very caring, loving, family-reinforcing thing to do, in fact this was the beginning of the end. It's more like he did it out of guilt or desperation.