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American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINESittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, env ...Show more
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from "Catcher in the Rye" to "The Secret History". Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with im ...Show more
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader - and catches the eye of driven, handsome an ...Show more
You Think It I'll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD: a dazzling, smart and razor-sharp first collection by the author of American Wife and Eligible. In 'The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I'll say it, putting into wor ...Show more
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