BE HAPPY OR I"LL SCREAM is for every married woman who has found just the tiniest bit of disconnect between the image of a perfect family in her head--think "The Brady Bunch" or "The Huxtables"--and the evidence in front of her eyes.  Instead of darling and compliant rosy-cheeked children and an adorably tolerant husband ready to go along with zany shenanigans, most women are faced with: kids who view family outings with all the enthusiasm of hardened inmates forced to bust rocks in roadside Alabama and a man who would trade every last one of her kooky ideas for a just a teeny little bit more sex and a hot meal on the table at six.
 
Sheri Lynch is a superb humorist of modern marriage, mores, and motherhood.    Her take on what life is really like inside a marriage--as opposed to what it looks like on the holiday card version of same--will ring both wacky and true to any woman who was ever foolish enough to dream of the perfect marriage and family.