![]() ![]() 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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