Following up on reader favorite passages in the Chet and Bernie series (see previous posts on nightfall in The Sound and the Furry) here’s an Amazon reviewer on A Farewell to Arfs, the brand new C&B. I won’t quote the whole thing, but the passage singled out is spoken by Etta, a new character in the series:

‘Plus — as usual — the author hits us with surprising insights into the human condition, like this one, concerning marital infidelity:

“The wife always knows. Completely different if it’s the husband getting cheated on. They never know. At the same time, when they’re not geting cheated on they can get very suspicious. That’s why the cuckold is comedy, and the betrayed wife is tragedy.”‘