I am about 75 pages into this book and so far, I am not enjoying it.
It's about a college student in the U.S. who is writing a thesis about the way marriage plots are used in literature, mostly classics of which I haven't heard of too many of them. That seems to be the subplot. The main plot is about the student, Madeleine, and her "relationships" with her parents and these 2 love interests, Mitchell and Leonard.
I'm annoyed by the characters so far. It's almost as if they are trying too hard to be different, but I guess a book written about someone who is your typical college student wouldn't be that interesting? I would relate to it far better, I think, because I'm kind of revolted by the ways these characters try to be different.
I am baffled... overall, the book makes no sense to me when you read the premise and the description. So far, it's more about a college student's life as she experiments with sex and tries to understand love. I don't know if that's too base of a description but that's all I've got out of it right now. It might be because I don't have much of a literary background. I'm trying to finish it so I can give it a more comprehensive review, but I wanted to make note of my thoughts of this at this point.
I hesitate to compare it to Middlesex which I really enjoyed, especially because it took me out of my comfort zone as it explored a somewhat socially-taboo topic I really knew nothing about. Maybe I hated my university experience and that's why I'm not enjoying The Marriage Plot? I don't know...