A review by dcmr
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

2.0

This writer has range! Her novels have featured prep school students to clairvoyants. And after enjoying "Prep" and "Sisterland," I was eager to read another. But American Wife was not for me; I found it long and dull. And even worse, just a few pages in I realized this story is a fictionalized rendering of the life and marriage Laura and George Bush — a topic that holds absolutely no interest to me. Before I read this book, I didn't like or respect George — and the Bush family — and the novel just affirmed my distaste.

Sittenfeld is a masterful writer, but this one left me cold.