It takes some time to get into, but the payoff is experiencing another Eugenides novel. Never as fantastic as Middlesex or Virgin Suicides, Marriage Plot still manages to weave a solid anti-romance that pays off, for the most part. At times it gets a bit too full of itself and it's hard to reconcile reading yet another story about Ivy League love, but Eugenides has a knack for turning the mundane into poetry.