Madeleine Hanna wrote her senior thesis on the marriage plot in Victorian literature. It's the early 1980s and without realizing it, she is living her own, updated version of the same type of love story. She is in a rocky relationship with handsome, tortured Leonard. But her friend Mitchell believes that he and Madeleine are meant to be together even though she has given him the brush off. Eugenides crafted a story that includes the realities of modern relationships while giving glimpses of the romance of novels like Austen's. As stories go, this is just another book about angsty relationships. It is Eugenides' masterful writing that makes this something special.
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