Hillary Clinton was, by the estimations of many political pundits, one of the most qualified presidential candidate in history. But she lost the election to one of the least politically qualified candidates to ever win the office.
Those are the tantalizing questions posed in Curtis Sittenfeld’s fictional alternate history, “Rodham” , which imagines a timeline where 20-something Yale Law School graduate Hillary Rodham ultimately rejects Bill Clinton’s marriage proposal.
That is, until she meets Bill. Tall, leonine, handsome Bill, the Southern seeming gentleman from Arkansas who could have his pick of the litter but fixates on the “defiantly dowdy and flat-voweled” girl whose mind matches his own. Hillary is rapturous. “I have found a man who loves my brain,” she croons.But the warning signs are there from the beginning.
Sittenfeld is an adept mimic, channeling Hillary’s voice in a first-person narrative that places the reader in her head as she navigates love and the American electorate. It’s a familiar place, but never a fully living, breathing one – a neat parlor trick with no real magic behind it.
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