Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House: $28) A cynical TV comedy writer who has given up on love falls for a pop star in a novel from the author of “Prep” and “Eligible.”ĩ. She’s a total mess and stands alone, clutching a stack of letters addressed to Sugar.8. And in the final frame, we see Clare in the present day, outside her home again. (Hey, that’s the name of the show!) She wishes she had done the same when her mom was still alive. During a final voiceover, she encourages a Dear Sugar reader to relish in life’s tiny, beautiful things. We follow her younger self (played by The Wilds‘ Sarah Pidgeon), Lucas (The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Owen Painter) and her mother, Frankie ( Nurse Jackie‘s Merritt Wever), who was diagnosed with cancer when Clare was 22. That triggers flashbacks into her past, including a different, heroin-fueled hookup.Īdditional flashbacks reveal that Clare has faced personal turmoil for much of her life. Clare also suspects that Danny might be sleeping with Mel, so she goes and hooks up with her Uber driver. She doesn’t trust their therapist, Mel, who wonders aloud whether Clare’s instability is due to latent anxieties about her decaying beauty as she approaches 50.
The marrieds attend couples therapy, but Clare doesn’t fully buy into the process.
He then bestows Dear Sugar duties unto Clare, thinking she’d be a better fit for the job - ya know, despite all the evidence suggesting otherwise.īut what initially set off Clare’s undoing? She gave Rae’s college fund away to her younger brother, Lucas, to save their childhood home without first consulting Danny. Her friend, an average white man and not the remarkable, doting woman she envisioned all along, has been writing the column. Clare tries to cope by seeking solace in advice column Dear Sugar, but she soon discovers it’s a sham.
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