![]() ![]() She names the Bush clan the Blackwells - Charlie Blackwell is the George W. However, a prefatory paragraph cautiously describes the novel as "loosely inspired" by Bush's life. For American Wife Sittenfeld researched books, articles and Web sites, she writes in the acknowledgments, listing several books by name. Prep, a coming-of-age story set in an elite Eastern boarding school, was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times. Maybe.Īmerican Wife is the 32-year-old Sittenfeld's third novel, following Prep and The Man of My Dreams, both best-sellers. I came away convinced that Alice Blackwell, as the protagonist is called, reproduces the real Laura Bush. ![]() But as I read the novel, bouncing between the world of the book and what I know of the Bushes, I didn't detect many false steps on Sittenfeld's part. How accurately it captures Laura Bush's inner life and the vicissitudes of her marriage are things only she and her intimates can know. ![]()
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