Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of American Wife and Eligible . . . He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever. “A deviously clever what if.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Immersive, escapist.”—Good Morning America“Ingenious.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & … THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York PostIn 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has…
A New York Times bestselling author delivers a “smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine” collection of tales (Booklist starred review) that focus on modern American women navigating relationships, class, and family. “Reading these consistently engrossing stories is a pleasure” (Publishers Weekly).
A New York Times bestseller and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice: Returning home to help their family, Liz and Jane Bennet find themselves caught in the middle of their mother’s plotting. “An utterly engrossing, hilariously over-the-top send-up” (School Library Journal).
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible: Alice never thought she’d fall for brash Charlie. Will her life with a future US president cause her to betray what she stands for… and bring her face-to-face with a secret from the past? “Entertaining” (Joyce Carol Oates).
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate … animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely…