Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
The social satire
Seating Arrangements is the penetrating debut novel of Maggie Shipstead, who recounts a weekend marriage retreat on the fictional New England isle, Waskeke. The story is centered around the 59 year old Winn van Meter, a Harvard educated man with three daughters, including the bride-to-be. The wedding weekend begins in a standard manner, but a tangled web of plots leads to both turmoil, and genuine hilarity. Similarly to her protagonist, Shipstead herself graduated from Harvard, and has definitely made a splash on the literary scene with her wittily crafted
Seating Arrangements.
Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead
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