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...Curtis Sittenfeld's best-selling debut novel, Prep, dropped a Midwestern girl into an East Coast boarding school, where readers watched her struggle toward adulthood. In her third novel, American Wife (Random House, 576 pages), Sittenfeld raises the stakes: this time, the Midwestern girl ends up in the White House. Readers will recognize Laura and George Bush as the inspiration for Sittenfeld's first couple, Alice and Charlie Blackwell, but it's the author's rich imagination that brings the Blackwells to life. TIME's senior arts editor Radhika Jones spoke to Sittenfeld a few days before the book...
...Curtis Sittenfeld: Soon after George W. Bush was elected I read a few articles about Laura Bush that made her seem different from what I would have expected. I learned that she's a big reader, and that she would invite people who had political opinions different from her husband's to events at the governor's mansion and then events at the White House. And then I read a biography of her in 2004 by Ann Gerhart called The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush. That reinforced the sense I had that...
...Reviewer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu. The Man of My Dreams By Curtis Sittenfeld Random House...
More disappointingly, Sittenfeld leaves Hannah teaching special-needs kids at a school in New Mexico—still single and unattached, yet believing that she “was meant to live in the desert of New Mexico, meant to be a teacher with Vaseline on my blouse...
Readers will want Sittenfeld to confirm that Hannah’s—and our own—trepidations about love will not keep her away from it forever...