You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories, Paperback

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A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her ``astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads`` (The Washington Post) is showcased like never before. Throughout the ten stories in You Think It, I'll Say It, Sittenfeld 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. In ``A Regular Couple,`` a high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. 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. With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we're all thinking--if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original. Praise for Curtis Sittenfeld ``Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one.``--The Washington Post ``Sittenfeld . . . . is popular but intellectual, accessible but mysterious and, above all--a perspective chameleon with an uncanny ability to enter the minds of callow prep school outcasts and devotedly compromising first ladies alike.``--NPR's All Things Consid