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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence; the political world carries low-level menace
Language
Some
Moderate language; literary fiction register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships; some intimate content including with a fictional version of Bill Clinton
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in a political world
Emotional Intensity
Some
The question of what a woman could have been, ambition and the marriages it requires or precludes, a brilliant person imagined fully on their own terms
What this book is about
In 1971, Hillary Rodham met Bill Clinton at Yale Law School and fell in love. In this alternate history, she says no when he proposes — and the rest of her life unfolds without him: a career in Illinois politics, teaching, a Senate run, a presidential race. Curtis Sittenfeld's literary counterfactual is a careful, compassionate portrait of a real woman's imagined inner life, asking what happens when ambition belongs entirely to you.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
uses real living political figures in a speculative way
adult romantic content
may provoke strong political reactions
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