At Lit Hub she tagged seven novels "if you’re craving an Austen-y fix." One title on the list:
Emily Adrian, Seduction TheoryRead about another entry on the list.
This forthcoming-this-summer novel is a gleefully constructed diagram of several affairs. Written in the form of an MFA thesis, the book offers a postmodern dissection of the ways power affects coupling partnerships. There’s an entanglement involving professors, graduate students, and department leaders that ends in a true Edwardian muddle. Extremely fun and incredibly itchy.
--Marshal Zeringue
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