Rodham: A Novel

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In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a younger girl filled with promise: Life journal has lined her Wellesley graduation speech, she’s attending Yale Regulation College, and she or he’s on the forefront of pupil activism and the ladies’s rights motion. After which she meets Invoice Clinton. A good-looking, charismatic southerner and fellow regulation pupil, Invoice is already planning his political profession. In one another, the 2 discover a profound mental, emotional, and bodily connection that neither has beforehand skilled.
 
In the actual world, Hillary adopted Invoice again to Arkansas, and he proposed a number of instances; though she mentioned not more than as soon as, as everyone knows, she finally accepted and have become Hillary Clinton.
 
However in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a special highway. Feeling doubt concerning the potential marriage, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the following 4 many years, she blazes her personal path—one which unfolds in public in addition to in personal, that includes crossing paths once more (and once more) with Invoice Clinton, that raises questions concerning the tradeoffs all of us should make in constructing a life.
 
Brilliantly weaving a riveting fictional story into precise historic occasions, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our instances. In exploring the loneliness, ethical ambivalence, and iron dedication that characterize the search for political energy, in addition to each the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of feminine ambition in a world nonetheless run largely by males, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.