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From your "wickedly enjoyable" (USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times best-selling author of Prep and North american Partner, comes today's retelling of Take great pride in and Prejudice. Identical parts homage to Jane Austen and vibrant literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the 21st hundred years. This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is the one that you have and haven't found before: Liz is a mag article writer in her overdue 30s who, like her yoga exercises instructor elderly sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help - and find out that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling, and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too occupied with their CrossFit routines and paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is making her third online master's degree and scarcely leaves her room aside from those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her head: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's 40th birthday fast approaches. Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who lately appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip can take an immediate curiosity about Jane, but Chip's good friend, neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, discloses himself to Liz to be significantly less charming.... And yet, first impressions can be deceiving. Wonderfully sensitive and hilariously funny, Eligible both honors and updates Austen's beloved tale. Tackling gender, category, courtship, and family, Sittenfeld reaffirms herself among the most dazzling writers writing today.
