`Marriage Plot’ author returns to Brooklyn
Author Jeffrey Eugenides identifies three sources that prompt someone to fall in love: divine inspiration, biology and Hugh Grant movies.
He dissects how we fall in love in “The Marriage Plot,” which brought him to DUMBO’s powerHouse Arena on Sept. 21 to launch a tour touting the novel’s paperback release. Eugenides read a passage and fielded questions about his Greek-American background, the chances of a “Marriage Plot” sequel (“It never occurred to me”) and the books that influenced him when he was young.
“When I was a child, I think it was either ’F Troop’ or ‘Gilligan’s Island’ that was a major influence,” he said. “I don’t actually remember. I wasn’t one of those kids that read lots of books that I remember.”