2009 book 93

Emily Fox Gordon's It Will Come to Me
Apparently Gordon is an acclaimed memoirist and this is her first novel. It's a quick read with some interesting goings-on; it deals with the chair of a Philosophy department at a small college in Texas and his wife, a former well-known author. The jacket description talks about how things get chaotic when a famous memoirist and her husband join the faculty, but they were really pretty minor characters. Actually most of what happens in this book is pretty minor (though Gordon does nail academic culture). Part of the problem is that the protagonist (the novelist wife) isn't really that likable or interesting, and also conflicts in the story get resolved way too neatly. B/B-.