The Marriage Plot
Bookpage Interviews and Reviews
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Love in the modern world
When you only publish a book once every decade or so—and your last novel won the Pulitzer Prize, to boot—expectations for your next work are bound to be excessively high.
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Legal dreams and schemes
John Grisham is such a good storyteller that it’s easy to forget how much you can learn about law and justice, with all “its flaws and ambiguities,” while listening to one of his
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New paperback releases for reading groups
Leah Hager Cohen’s poignant fourth novel, The Grief of Others, follows a married couple as they try to move forward in the wake of tragedy.
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Reader Reviews
I was looking forward to reading this for months before publication. I really loved "Middlesex" and I can't begin to convey how truly disappointed I was in "The Marriage Plot". I had to force myself to pick it up over and over again. The story line plodded along, the prose was heavy and leaden, the plot line exhausting. I was unable to like or sympathize with the three mealy-mouthed, self-absorbed main characters. I kept hoping that if I kept at the 400 pages, that at some point, it would become worthwhile. It never did. What a waste of time.