A Review: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
This is my Goodreads review. Goodreads rating: 1 star I found the book to be well written and one that is hard to put down, but I would never recommend. It's a dangerous precedent to be writing about real people as fiction and recreating them to spur ones own convictions. This is why it's a one star rating. If this had been a future president unassociated with anyone living, it would have received four stars. The liberal author has simply created a way to give her political views credibility. She pretends that her views are the real views of Laura Bush. To call this a work of fiction is a cover. You cannot read it without imagining and believing it is George and Laura Bush she is writing about. The clever use of truth amongst the overwhelming fabrication she indulges in will almost certainly color the readers impression of these two very real persons forever. People who are not unlike t...