american wife

Thanks to Sara for the book recommendation. I read this in a few sittings and thought way too much about George Bush.

American Wife is a novel about a small town girl who becomes the first lady. She marries an alcoholic doofus, who purchases a baseball team, finds religion, wins his elections when he's predicted not to, and then declares war. I am trying to be entirely apolitical right now while I describe what it's about- I read some reviews saying this book was the liberals' idea of how they wanted Laura Bush to be, but then I read an interview by the author saying 85% of the novel was made up- and of course it was, because it was about a schoolteacher from Wisconsin, albiet paralleling the Texas born first lady's life, but still.

Curtis Sittenfeld is a woman, also, which I did not find out until the author information at the end of the novel. This fact also relieved me because I have never heard of a woman named Curtis, and there were explicit first couple sex scenes from a woman's perspective in the book which I think could not have come from a mister. TMI? sorry.