This week, Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel entitled American Wife is being unveiled to the public - just in time for the Republican National Convention. The novel is an imagining of what it would be like to be inside the head and persona of the First Lady, in this case, a fictionalized Laura Bush called Alice Maxwell. It is a roman-a-clef in which are some are claiming people will confuse with the real thing. First of all, people -- it is F-I-C-T-I-O-N and even if some people do, would it be so wrong? The arguments claim that the oafish, incompetent President in the novel, Charlie Maxwell, might be too hard for some people to distinguish between him and the real President. Hmmm...
The New York Times Book Review here...
USA Today here...
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