"The Marriage Plot," the latest offering from the acclaimed author of “Middlesex” and “The Virgin Suicides,” tells the story of a very literary love triangle formed on an American college campus. The novel also asks the question: Are 19th-century love stories relevant to our lives today? Monitor critic Yvonne Zipp found that "speaking as a lover of 19th-century novels, it's impossible not to be charmed by Eugenides's defense" of the great works of that century.