From the wickedly entertaining USA Today Curtis Sittenfeld New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife comes a modern retelling of Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice. A bold literary experiment Eligible is a brilliant playful and delicious saga for the twenty-first century. This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven t met before Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who like her yoga instructor older sister Jane lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary the middle sister is earning her third online master s degree and barely leaves her room except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one... About the Author Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of the novels Prep The Man of My Dreams American Wife and Sister land which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her nonfiction has been published widely including in The New York Times The Atlantic Time and Glamour and broadcast on public radio s This American Life.