The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.
But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own Marriage Plot to end..
Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.
Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist.
As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.
Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great Marriage plots.
Brown University, 1982.
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides
