Rodham

In Curtis Sittenfeld's powerful new novel Hillary Clinton decides not to marry her fellow student Bill Clinton. Listening to her doubts about the prospective marriage, she endures a devastating break-up and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail - one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that crosses paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the trade-offs all of us must make to build a life. What if Hillary Rodham hadn't married Bill Clinton?