I don't even know how to summarize this one. It focuses on three recent college graduates as they struggle to figure out what to do with their lives. Madeleine, an English major who is all too normal, falls for Leonard, a troubled loner. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell from freshman year, has decided Madeleine is the perfect girl for him. It was a decent book with an interesting plot, but I'm not sure I recommend it unless you are prepared for language and obscure literary references. I read it mainly because his two other books are so highly reviewed but now I probably won't read them.
The title comes from the "marriage plot" found in the great English novels by the likes of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. You know, where girls have to go out and find a husband, preferably one with a good name and some money. Does the marriage plot work now? Or is there a modern version?
Anyway, I apologize for this review. It really gives you nothing to go on. I just wanted to document that I read it.
Read: April 2012 (via CD from the library)
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