houstonkp 's review for:

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

4.0

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Maybe it was part guilty pleasure, maybe part uncontrollable curiosity, but I couldn't put the American Wife down. By providing a sympathetic (and fictional) view of the former first lady, Sittenfeld attempts to answer how someone so private and bookish ended up married to a man who seemed so opposite than herself. The story follows Alice from her childhood home all the way to the White House, where six years into her husband's presidency she admits, "All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power."