![]() ![]() ![]() There is a lot of melodrama, but Sittenfeld’s understated style works well to bring home Alice’s loss of innocence. In confused grief she sleeps with his older brother and has an abortion. Then, as a teen, virginal Alice runs a stop sign, hits another car and causes the death of the very boy she was on her way to meet at a party. ![]() In the involving, richly imagined first section of the book, set in Wisconsin rather than Texas, narrator Alice spends a charmed middle-class girlhood with loving parents and a devoted grandmother, an iconoclast who introduces Alice to the joys of literature, among other things. President in this roman à clef from Sittenfeld ( The Man of My Dreams, 2006, etc.). An elementary-school librarian marries the least promising son of an old-moneyed, intensely competitive Republican family and sticks by him as he rises from hard-drinking fool to unpopular U.S. ![]()
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