{"product_id":"9780525527770","title":"You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling collection of short stories from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePrep, American Wife,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEligible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurtis 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” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) is showcased like never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the ten stories in \u003ci\u003eYou Think It, I’ll Say It,\u003c\/i\u003e Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In “The World Has Many Butterflies,” married acquaintances play a strangely intimate game with devastating consequences. In “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” a shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate’s seemingly enviable life. In “A Regular Couple,” a high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. And in “The Prairie Wife,” a suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome-lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we’re all thinking—if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Curtis Sittenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sittenfeld is . . . popular but intellectual, accessible but mysterious and, above all—a perspective chameleon with an uncanny ability to enter the minds of callow prep school outcasts and devotedly compromising first ladies alike.”\u003cb\u003e—NPR’s \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Sittenfeld] is a master of dramatic irony, creating fully realized social worlds before laying waste to her heroines’ understanding of them. . . . Her prose [is] a rich delight.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cezar Luchian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012175184112,"sku":"9780525527770","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525527770_p0.jpg?v=1763710756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525527770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}