![]() ![]() ![]() Her elder sister, Jane, a New York City yoga instructor, joins Liz there. Liz, a thirty-eight-year-old New York features writer for a women’s journal, Mascara, returns home to Cincinnati to help care for her father while he recuperates from a heart attack. Liz Bennet, of course, is the star, although her four sisters play prominent roles, too. For fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Eligible is an absolute delight, a take-off on Austen’s masterpiece that remakes her gentile, nineteenth-century characters into twenty-first century avatars who exemplify what is most idiosyncratic about current American behavior.Īll of our favorites romp through Eligible’s scenes. ![]() Quite simply, Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Eligible, is a hoot! I chuckled aloud as I read-each page, each character, each episode funnier than the one before. Sittenfeld’s Eligible brings Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the twenty-first century. ![]()
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