IIt's seems as if lately I can only read books relating to my own situation. Jeffrey Eugenides obviously held off on publishing this until October 2011 just to get one more reader. The Marriage Plot is quite satisfying. Not hugely ambitious but just happy to go along telling a story of three bright young people graduating from Brown and going on with their lives. I cared about the characters and enjoyed their stories, nothing much happens but so what? Since the characters are in college in 1983, the year Eugenides graduated from Brown, Eugenides gets to return to all the courses he probably took and argue with all the professors through his characters, with the clear eyes of a 50 year old. How much more satisfying could that be?
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