Five years after David Finch married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains David's ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, but it doesn't make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband with an endearing yet hilarious zeal. His methods for improving his marriage involve excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies, including don't change the radio station when she's singing along and apologies do not count when you shout them. Over the course of two years, David transforms himself from the world's most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest. He becomes the husband he was always meant to be.
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