AMERICAN WIFE

by Curtis Sittenfeld, I read this book because someone said to me that it was loosely based on Laura Bush's life...and that intrigued me. Obviously this book is a work of fiction and any parallels are interesting but not necessarily intentional. The first 430 pages are about growing up, dating and marriage, it isn't until part 4 of the book that the white house and being a president's wife is mentioned. In the end of the book the author notes that she did some research about being the first lady...but it looks limited to the Clinton Family and the Bush Family. The Blackwell family has one daughter, not two...they are from Wisconsin, not Texas...and the differences continue from there, however, knowing what I knew before starting the book I couldn't help but wonder about the possibility of how much reality and fiction were intersecting. I recommend this book...as I recommend her previous book PREP!