Curtis Sittenfield hit the world with Prep, American
Wife, and Eligible. Now her short story collection brings
to life modern day characters with interesting flaws.
Cover blurb – Throughout the ten stories in You Think
It, I’ll Say It, Sittenfield upends assumptions about class, relationships,
and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In
“The World Has Many Butterflies” married acquaintances play a strangely
intimate game with devastating consequences. In “Vox Clamantis in Deserto” a
shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate’s seemingly enviable
life. And in the “Prairie Wife” a suburban mother of two fantasizes about the
downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be
built on a lie.
I enjoy Curtis Sittenfield’s writing and she is quite deft
in striking to the heart of an issue, stroking it with finesse, and completing
the full story with grace. Her dialogue is current. Her characters are well
developed. From the promise that was Prep, this author has
emerged as a strong American writer who commands her art with wit and depth.
