Of course, at the moment no one is going anywhere. I probably made narrative choices that I thought served the book but also ensured that that wouldn’t happen.” But I don’t think that’s going to happen. “If I got word that Hillary Clinton wanted to have lunch with me, I would be delighted,” Sittenfeld says. Sitting at her desk in a black sweater and thick-framed eyeglasses, her straight brown hair cut in a no-nonsense shoulder-length style, she explains that to write a good novel she had to make decisions that served the story rather than ones that would please Clinton. Sittenfeld deeply admires Clinton, and that esteem fueled her desire to write Rodham (Random House, May), her sixth novel, which imagines Clinton’s life if she hadn’t married Bill.īut Sittenfeld says she had to keep those feelings in check for the project. It’s late March and Curtis Sittenfeld is speaking via Skype from her Minneapolis home about the complexities of writing a novel inspired by the life of Hillary Clinton.
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