Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Wife Parade

Floats Not Included
Wives are a popular fiction topic and with late summer comes a new round of books about them. Here's a few quick read suggestions accompanied by quick plot notes:

Novel about My Wife by Emily Perkins (expatriate wife descends into madness)... American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (wife of U.S. president thrust into the spotlight as in Laura Bush?)... The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell (proper wives, each with a scandalous secret).

Add these to your list of older fiction reads about a kitchen god's wife, a pilot's wife, a zookeeper's wife, Ahab's wife, a senator's wife and we'll have a parade!