???This year the book of the summer is going to be Eligible??? The Times 'Sheer joy??? Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice??? Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist From the bestselling author of Prep, American Wife and Sisterland comes this brilliant retelling of Austen???s classic set in modern day Cincinnati. The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Liz and Jane are good daughters. They???ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon enough they are being berated for their single status, their only respite is the early morning runs they escape on together. For two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family???s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men .