What If Hillary Clinton Hadn’t Married Bill? New Novel By Curtis Sittenfeld Explores Possibility

What if Hillary Rodham Clinton hadn’t married Invoice? This query is the premise behind Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel, Rodham, which can release on June 30, 2020.

“There have been countless items analyzing Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election, and I discovered myself considering not about how she seems to be to all of us, however how all of us look to her,” Sittenfeld tells PEOPLE in an unique statement concerning the e-book, which can be launched concurrently by Random Home in the U.S. and Doubleday within the U.Okay. “As an alternative of analyzing her from the surface and figuring out what she ‘means,’ I approached this novel with the question, ‘What is it wish to be her?’

“I additionally questioned what it may need been like if she had made totally different decisions, personally and professionally, than the ones we now know so properly,” continues the writer. (See the guide cowl under.) “I really like writing (and studying) fiction because it allows me to actually think about the granularity and texture of one other individual’s feelings, days, habits, opinions, and secrets. We all know that our own lives are difficult and contradictory. Fiction helps us acknowledge the problems and contradictions in different individuals’s lives.”

Rodham follows the life of Hillary Rodham, who falls in love together with her Yale Regulation Faculty classmate, Invoice Clinton. Whereas the 2 share a “profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection,” Hillary decides to show down Invoice’s a number of marriage proposals, in response to the press release. This can be a huge divergence from Hillary Clinton’s real life during which she married Bill Clinton, and later joined him within the White House as First Woman. What would have happened to the former Secretary of State and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate if her legacy hadn’t been tied to the previous president, who faced an impeachment trial for his affair with a White House intern? It’s a hypothetical state of affairs that Sittenfeld beloved to explore.

The writer has expertise creating literary works round high-profile ladies. Her 2008 hit novel, American Spouse, was inspired by former First Woman Laura Bush. She’s also revealed books like Eligible, a recent take on Jane Austen’s Delight and Prejudice;  Sisterland, a haunting take a look at the connection between twin sisters; and The Man of My Goals, a compelling story about one woman’s transition from adolescence to womanhood. Her brief story collection, You Assume It, I’ll Say It, contains a story impressed by Hillary Clinton.

While Sittenfeld is called a author of political fiction, she’s turned down one request dozens of occasions: She refuses to put in writing a novel about First Woman Melania Trump.

“First, I can't think about at this point voluntarily writing concerning the Trump administration as a result of it has claimed a lot of my mental power, a lot of my life, that to allow it to take up my writing time too looks like I might be giving up one thing very valuable,” Sittenfeld told The Guardian in April 2018. “I don’t need to think about Trump more than I already am.”

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She continued: “One more reason is that I don’t like purely being satirical or savaging individuals. I actually like writing about characters in a balanced, difficult means and I don’t assume I might do this with Melania Trump. I don’t admire her. I don’t see her as one-dimensional, however neither do I see her as somebody whose consciousness I yearn to discover.”

Rodham will probably be revealed on June 30, 2020.

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