"Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that
the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah's
observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand
well into adulthood."-from "The Man of My Dreams"
In her acclaimed debut novel, "Prep," Curtis Sittenfeld created a
touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her
prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man
of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the
collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the
challenges and realities of adult life.
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines
she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own
life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between
these two extremes-just maybe-lie the answers to love's most
bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she
moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that
the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what
point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up
childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soul mate an act
of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another
state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being
plucky-or just pathetic?
None of the relationships in Hannah's life are without
complications. There's her father, whose stubbornness Hannah
realizes she's unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig,
whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah;
Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while he's dating
Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she
deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time she's in
her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants
most-but she doesn't yet know whether she'll find the courage to go
after it.
Full of honesty and humor, "The Man of My Dreams" is an unnervingly
insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside
forces and personal choices that make us who we are.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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