hotironskillet 's review for:

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

4.0

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The Marriage Plot may have been set in the 1980s but I think the storyline is applicable to any decade. The whole, she loves him, he loves her, this guy is better for her but she doesn't realize it... you get the point. The book is not at all as trite as that sentence makes it sound though. I found it brought me back in my mind to my college years and how intensely I seemed to feel everything. Eugenides caught that feeling well without making me feel like the characters were immature for those feelings.