Engagement

Wednesday

Leon Craig

For better, for worse: Death Do Us by Ruthy Mason reviewed

From our UK edition

Bea should be elated: her sweet and loyal boyfriend Jake has just proposed, with the family ring, over dinner. Instead, she feels numb and distant, retreating into anthropological analysis of her new role as the bride-to-be. She soon discovers that Jake’s mother is poised to make the engaged couple a generous gift to help with wedding expenses, but it comes with an unspoken condition. Lorraine wants her pushy goddaughter Millie, Jake’s ex-girlfriend, included in the bridal party. Millie is all fake hair and barbed comments, beneath which a pulse of obsessive longing for Jake throbs audibly.

Wednesday

Neal Pollack

Meet Bettina Anderson, Donald Trump Jr.’s WASPy fiancée

On December 15, the White House was the setting for its own romantic holiday movie, though it didn’t involve amnesia or a big-city career gal moving to a small town to reconnect with her high-school boyfriend who’s now a lumberjack and handyman. Instead, President Trump “let the cat out of the bag” by announcing that his son, Donald Trump Jr., was engaged to a woman named Bettina Anderson. "I'm not usually at a loss for words, because I'm usually doing the ranting and raving really well," said the 47-year-old Don Jr. "I want to thank Bettina for that one word: 'Yes.'" It was, he said, a "big win for the end of the year". Bigly. Who is this new branch on the Trump family tree? Articles widely describe Anderson as a “Florida socialite.

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