First Hubby: A Novel About a Man Who Happens to Be Married to the President of the United States

By: Roy Blount Jr.

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Synopsis: A funny novel of the first &“First Husband,&” from an author who &“writes in the grand tradition of such American humorists as Mark Twain and Will Rogers&” (Library Journal). Guy Fox first encountered Clementine on the campus of Dingler College. She was running, stark naked, away from an on-campus protest and the police who were pursuing her. Guy and Clementine&’s romance wound through turbulent social movements of the &’60s and &’70s, all the way to Clementine&’s ascension to the Oval Office. As the nation&’s very first First Husband, Guy is privy to the surreal intricacies of presidential life, and he sets out to write a light and thoroughly uncontroversial memoir about his relationship with Clementine. But the First Hubby can&’t help but let some of his more mischievous qualities slip through into his book . . . The thoroughly charming First Hubby is an engrossing novel about politics, family, and the art of marriage that &“offers an emphatic and romantic &‘yes&’ to the question &‘Can true love survive the Oval Office&’?&” (The New Yorker).