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The Rosie Project
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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion explores the romantic and comedic errors of a man with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome, Don Tillson, as he looks for a wife. As a professor of genetics, Don lives an orderly, predictable life in a protected academic setting. Trouble ensues when he decides that he is ready to find his life’s partner. Set in Melbourne, Australia and New York City, the novel is told in the first person from Don’s perspective.
The Rosie Project sits within the tradition of the initiation novel, though the protagonist is 39 years old. During the course of the novel, Don grows up and has his first experience with romantic love. Because of his difficulties with social interactions, when the novel begins Don has not had a significant relationship, or even a second date.
Don decides that it is time for him to get married, so he organizes the Wife Project. He develops a stringent and detailed 16-page questionnaire to weed out all of the inappropriate and unqualified women. He hopes this process will identify a select pool of perfect candidates from which he can choose a partner.
Rosie enters the picture when Don mistakes her for a Wife Project applicant.
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