American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld
3 out of 5
Overly Long, Quite Redundant
Told in the voice of Alice Blackwell, you meet a young woman born in a simpler time to a simply family who one day finds herself dating and marrying a man with big dreams and little actual talent.
But don’t let the little talent surprise you, this man becomes president of the United States and Alice has to battle her inner demons and keep her secrets to stand by the man she loves. How much of herself will she sell out to keep his dream, to keep her family intact, to support the joke of his family?
Of course everyone has already mentioned the similarities of Alice Blackwell to our current first lady, but to be fair, she could have just as easily been talking about Roselyn Carter or Ladybird Johnson; or any presidential wife living in the shadow of her bumbling husband.
Alice is a likeable character enough, if you like your female characters to be followers; I just wish that Sittenfeld would have been less repetitively descriptive and moved the story along faster. Easily 150 pages of this book could have been removed and the story would have been better.
Amazon Review: http://www.amazon.com/review/RYKXL39KOJFPA/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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