![]() Mary is a graduate student, while the others spend all their time at CrossFit: “Another source of irritation,” Liz complains, “was that her sisters looked fantastic.” Meanwhile, their mother is still obsessed with marrying her daughters to eligible men. ![]() No one is caring for their father, despite the fact that sisters Mary, Kitty, and Lydia all live at home, none of them contributing much. The story opens as Liz, thirty-eight, and her sister Jane, a thirty-nine-year-old yoga teacher, return to their childhood home in Cincinnati, where their father is recovering from a heart attack. Sittenfeld has transplanted the story to modern-day Cincinnati: Liz Bennet is a magazine writer based in New York and Fitzwilliam Darcy a handsome, forty-something neurosurgeon. An installment in publisher HarperCollins’s “Austen Project,” which invites contemporary novelists to reimagine the works of the great eighteenth-century British writer, Eligible is a retelling of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Eligible is a 2016 novel by American author Curtis Sittenfeld. ![]()
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