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'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel
Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president
By Jonas Oransky
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Posted Jul 7, 08 4:44 PM CDT
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In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing his crotch, undergoes an abortion, and has steamy sex with the brother of her high school sweetheart (who dies in a car crash she causes).
The narrator’s reaction upon discovering her grandmother is a lesbian: “Approaching the nearer vase, I pushed aside the greens and then I vomited—hideously, pungently, gloriously—into the vase's depths.”