The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Chatelaine editor's pick: Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. But girl loves another boy. A classic love triangle, but will it have a classic ending?

By Laurie Grassi

Updated November 2, 2012

7. Marriage plot

Jeffrey Eugenides wowed us with The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex. Now he’s back with a classic love triangle: Boy loves girl, girl (an English major) loves another boy. Will their story have the happy ending of many books girl has studied? For these characters, pride and prejudice abounds, sense and sensibility, not so much!

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides, $32 .

— L.G.

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