![]() ![]() For years, Liz has been stuck in an on-again-off-again relationship with Jasper Wick, who uses her for sex. Liz and Jane find this obsession all the more irksome because their love lives are not going as they wish. Mary is a graduate student, while the others spend all their time at CrossFit: “Another source of irritation,” Liz complains, “was that her sisters looked fantastic.” Meanwhile, their mother is still obsessed with marrying her daughters to eligible men. No one is caring for their father, despite the fact that sisters Mary, Kitty, and Lydia all live at home, none of them contributing much. The story opens as Liz, thirty-eight, and her sister Jane, a thirty-nine-year-old yoga teacher, return to their childhood home in Cincinnati, where their father is recovering from a heart attack. ![]() Sittenfeld has transplanted the story to modern-day Cincinnati: Liz Bennet is a magazine writer based in New York and Fitzwilliam Darcy a handsome, forty-something neurosurgeon. ![]() An installment in publisher HarperCollins’s “Austen Project,” which invites contemporary novelists to reimagine the works of the great eighteenth-century British writer, Eligible is a retelling of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Eligible is a 2016 novel by American author Curtis Sittenfeld. ![]()
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