![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the novel clings like blow-dried Saran wrap to the famously implausible biography of Laura Bush, a shy librarian with Democratic leanings who ended up married to the most destructive right-wing frat boy in the history of the world.Īlthough the book contains a healthy handful of scandalous passages-the Laura Bush character having explosive diarrhea in her future in-laws’ bathroom, the George W. In a coy little note preceding her radioactive, Republican-baiting scandal bomb of a novel American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld writes that the book was “loosely inspired by the life of an American first lady.” She means loose here in the sense that gymnasts’ ponytails, hipster jeans, third face-lifts, and sheets on military bunks are loose. ![]()
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