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The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
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In the spring of her final year, Madeleine Hanna has enrolled in a semiotics course 'to see what all the fuss is about'. She falls in love with Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner and college Darwinist - who introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. Then Mitchell Grammaticus resurfaces, and wants her to be his wife.
I read this for 2019’s Week 37: a book set in a school or university. I really loved it. The characters were very realistic and endearing, and the storyline gets the reader very involved. A wonderful read.
My review here.