Thanks to NetGalley, Crown Publishing and Anne Tyler for allowing me to read this book!
I love Anne Tyler's book and this one was no exception. It was a fun, easy read - a modern day retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Kate is the oldest daughter of a "mad" scientist who works out of a lab at Johns Hopkins. Since Kate's mother is deceased, Kate has become the one who holds the family together and keeps the dad's weird peculiarities and rules for the home and her younger sister, Bunny. Bunny is the opposite of Kate - where Kate is serious, a loner, the "shrew," Bunny is flighty, cute, into boys.
Enter Pyotr - her dad's research assistant. He's on a visa that is getting ready to expire and her dad is desperate to keep him. So he comes up with the idea that Pyotr and Kate can get married.
It's a fun read - there are some laugh-out-loud moments and you can just picture these people and events from Anne Tyler's descriptions.
Highly recommended!
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