Franz Wisner Honeymoon with My Brother

Honeymoon with My Brother

Franz Wisner

St. Martin's, Feb 2005, $23.95

ISBN: 0312320906

Franz Wisner travels from his home in Southern California to marry his sweetheart Annie in the picturesque northern California town Sea Ranch. However, just before the ceremony, Annie stops the wedding. Stunned and humiliated, he heads home to Newport Beach only to have his boss, Gary Hunt at the Irvine Company, change his assignment from Sacramento and DC to Orange County. Disguising it as being good for the team does not work for Franz, who knows he has been demoted. Now angry and despondent he quits his job, hosts a mock wedding party, and travels on his honeymoon with his recently divorced brother Kurt. The twosome soon travel to over fifty countries in a two year odyssey to find one another.

This is a terrific biographical account of two years in the author's life, when he and his sibling journey around the world to forge a camaraderie that they had lost. The descriptions of the people in various nations are vivid and engaging, but the insightful passages are those between the brothers. Readers will be inspired by Franz Wisner's upbeat memoir, as he and Kurt learn what love and friendship are all about; each understands now that "He ain't heavy he's my brother".

Harriet Klausner