![]() ![]() In her first week, she is casually assaulted at a party by a frat boy. It starts in 2006, with Greer Kadetsky, “compact and determined like a flying squirrel” with a blue streak in her hair, but much less of a firebrand than Germaine, starting her first term at a second-rate college in Connecticut (she got into Yale but her flaky parents didn’t fill out the financial aid forms properly so she couldn’t go). It’s measured, generous, a sometimes long-winded exploration of what ambition and integrity mean, homing in on four very convincing characters, one of them a man who, through tragic circumstance, becomes perhaps the biggest feminist of them all. ![]() ![]() The Female Persuasion, perhaps her most substantial and serious book, is hardly a #MeToo sensation that gives voice to the divisions within feminism today - not surprisingly, as it was written before the Harvey Weinstein debacle. Wolitzer's previous (too long) book The Interestings deals with the successes and failures over decades of a group of New York friends who meet at a socialist summer camp the one before that, The Uncoupling (written a few years before Gwyneth Paltrow brought the word to our attention) transposes the Lysistrata comedy to a New Jersey town. ![]()
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