Location: J. Erik Jonsson Public Library, Dallas Public Library Auditorium
In Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, Eligible (to be released April 26), Lizzy Bennett is smart, beautiful, witty, successful—a high-powered magazine editor in New York—but when her father falls ill, she and her sister Jane return to Ohio and the home they thought they’d left behind forever. There, the thirty-somethings find their family in chaos: sisters Kitty and Lydia are wild over the Cincinnati Bengals, the city’s football team; Mary is becoming a rabbi (even though the Bennetts aren’t Jewish); and their creepy cousin Willie Collins, a Silicon Valley wunderkind, is paying the five sisters a little too much attention. And then there are Cincinnati’s newest and most eligible bachelors, handsome doctor and reality TV star Chip Bingley . . . and his utterly infuriating friend, neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy. At once familiar and utterly surprising, this is another spectacular effort from an author with “an astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers’ heads” (The Washington Post).
Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her nonfiction has been published by the New York Times and broadcast on public radio’s This American Life.
“A modern reinvention of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice, from the author of Prep and one of our best contemporary chroniclers of class and caste.”—St. Petersburg Times
