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It has been years since I have finished a book and immediately felt such a strong sense of loss that my time with the main character is over. Curtis Sittenfeld's portrait of Alice Blackwell, inspired by the life of Laura Bush, is richer and realer than anything I've read in a very long time. The bulk of the book is about her life before the White House instead of her time in it, with a spectacularly written section about the car accident that shaped young Alice's life. The final chapters that co
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