Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Read. Today our guys it Curtis Sittenfeld, author of You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories published in April by Random House.

Curtis is the bestselling author of five novels. Those books have been selected by the NYT, Time, EW and People for many Ten Best lists, optioned for TV and film and translated into 30 languages. Her short stories have appeared in the WP, Esquire and her non-fiction has appeared in the NYT, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Slate.

In this first collection Curtis writes stories about Donald Trump (I wake up every morning and my first thought is “Donald J. Trump is President of The United States of America!!!) and a package of other short stories that deal with women in right now America, all navigating this present and complicated culture with its norms and weirdness and allows these protagonists to deal with friendship, deceit, family, politics (as I mentioned) and of course social media.

Their stories are sad, poignant, funny, triumphant at times and tragic at others. In all, the great thing about these stories is that we feel, after reading each, that we have dealt with a real person and a real story.