This brilliant book is set in the early 80s, and the characters are on the cusp of college graduation. Academia, travel, and mental health are all characters, as fleshed out as Madeleine, Mitchell, and Leonard. The book is a meditation on looking back at your life and wondering how you got here. At first I didn't connect with the main characters but by the end of the book I was in complete agreement with their actions and motivations. Although it is a classic love triangle, Eugenides plays with the marriage plot and gives it a modern twist.
This is a literary novel. I loved it.
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Sweet, remind me, please; what was the other book you said I needed to go out right now and buy? I (obviously) didn't buy it when you said I should, and now I've forgotten. I want to add it to my list...
The other one I loved is Unsaid by Neil Abramson.
Thanks! It's on Santa's list!
Another one for the TBR pile!
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