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ROMANTIC COMEDY

By CURTIS SITTENFELD DOUBLEDAY

Curtis Sittenfeld has a wonderful ability to deliver books that can range from deeply serious such as American Wife and light but with so many layers in books such as Eligible. Romantic Comedy, as the title suggests, is one of her lighter reads and it’s wonderful.

It follows Sally, a writer on a New York-based TV sketch show in the vein of Saturday Night Live. After a failed marriage and

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