July Meeting: Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It, I'll Say It

Recommended Stories:

• The Prairie Wife (Available via the New Yorker here)
• A Regular Couple
• The World Has Many Butterflies

Winner of the poll for July, we'll check out this collection of stories that "pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life." Looking forward to seeing everyone! - Ben & Aly

For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.

About the collection:
Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her “astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers’ heads” (The Washington Post) is showcased like never before. Throughout the ten stories in You Think It, I’ll Say It, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided.