American Wife

ALSO BY CURTIS SITTENFELD

The Man of My Dreams

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Copyright © 2008 by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sittenfeld, Curtis.

American wife: a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld.

p.   cm.

1. Presidents’ spouses—United States—Fiction. 2. Women librarians—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.I94A8  2008

813’.6—dc22    2008008175

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