“What Mr. Eugenides is clearly striving for here is a reinvention of the marriage plot for a different age, though I suspect a number of female authors writing in the genre known as “chick lit” would lay claim to having done just this already.”
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Jeffrey Eugenides Tries to Reinvent the Marriage Plot | The New York Observer
Yes, this is similar to what I thought at the conclusion: good, but written by a woman it would likely have been classified as ‘women’s fiction’, the thought of which always makes me feel a little irritable. I still enjoyed it, though.
