num_pages: 344
description: Milo Slade a thirty-three year old home healthcare aide is witnessing the rapid dissolution of his three-year marriage to a polished high-powered attorney named Christine. Though Milo doesn't quite know the root of his marital problems he inevitably blames himself or more specifically he faults the demands his obsessive compulsive personality place upon himthe need to open a jar of Smuckers grape jelly or sing 99 Luftballons in front of an audience to name just a couple.Yet Christine is still none the wiser about these inexplicable quirks as Milo has painstakingly hidden them from her and everyone else for years. No one knows the trueand in his mind more insidiousMilo and such is the root of his profound loneliness especially now that he and Christine are living apart during a trial separation.Then one day Milo stumbles across a video camera and tapes left behind in a park. He watches the first tape which is a heartfelt confessional by a young woman who begins to reveal her secrets starting small at first and finally revealing that she blames herself for a tragic death of a friend. But not all the details add up and Milo is struck with the urge to free the sweet confessor from her guilt. He is after all an expert in keeping secretsIn typical screwball fashion Milo sets out on a cross-country journey to crack the case but quickly gets sidetracked when he can no longer ignore the demands of his compulsions. But it is during these sidetracks that the true meaning of his adventure takes shape. Milo is weird but as he discovers so is everyone else. UNEXPECTEDLY MILO is a humorous and touching novel about finding oneself embracing the journey and unexpectedly love.
language: English
title: Unexpectedly, Milo
publisher: Crown