American Wife: A Novel
By: Sittenfeld, Curtis
The summary says most of what you need to know about plot, leaving out only that this is a novel about sphinx-like first lady Laura Bush. What *must* she think of it all? The bulk of the novel, and the best part, deals with the early life of Alice Blackwell, the LB-surrogate, in the days before her husband became first a governor, then POTUS. Sittenfeld gives some sympathetic insight into how someone could find herself living a life “in opposition to itself.” This novel will make you want to read bios of Laura Bush, as well as more fiction by Curtis Sittenfeld.
Reviewer: tonstant weader
