There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

She also has an illegal abortion and discovers that her grandmother is a secret lesbian. Her brother P.

She is author of three novels: Prep the tale of a Massachusetts prep school The Man of My Dreams a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love and American Wife a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush as well as a number of short stories. Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer.