http://reading.kingrat.biz/reviews/american-wife-curtis-sittenfeld Books make me happy. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:22 +0100 hourly 1 http://reading.kingrat.biz/reviews/american-wife-curtis-sittenfeld#comment-2125 Barbara Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:00:27 +0000 http://reading.kingrat.biz/?p=913#comment-2125 i wonder if i read the same book as you. alice blackwell is often meek and passive, those are two words that describe her character very well, but also achingly, wonderfully human. her real strength lies in the thoughts she keeps mainly to herself, as it should be. curtis sittenfeld is a master at defining that universal disconnect between how others view who you are, and how you view yourself, and how none will ever truly see life from your eyes, no matter how intimately you might be connected. she is a thoughtful writer, and american wife is a thoughtful story. it is not action-packed or epic or even very exciting, but it is full of a kind of understanding of human emotion that i havent found in a writer's work in a long time. i wonder if i read the same book as you. alice blackwell is often meek and passive, those are two words that describe her character very well, but also achingly, wonderfully human. her real strength lies in the thoughts she keeps mainly to herself, as it should be. curtis sittenfeld is a master at defining that universal disconnect between how others view who you are, and how you view yourself, and how none will ever truly see life from your eyes, no matter how intimately you might be connected. she is a thoughtful writer, and american wife is a thoughtful story. it is not action-packed or epic or even very exciting, but it is full of a kind of understanding of human emotion that i havent found in a writer’s work in a long time.

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