![]() ![]() The narration switches back and forth between the third and first person, through an unnamed Narrator, as it follows middle-class New Jerseyite Mira Ward over 40 or so years, and the precarious social structure of the groups of women she befriends as a struggling newlywed, affluent wife and middle-aged divorced graduate student. ![]() This also might be the pinnacle of the Imaginary Summer Book Club concept: the wildly popular, widely influential book of its time that 40+ years on is remembered and beloved by a generation (of whom I would venture a guess has not re-read since) and unknown to anyone too young to have not read it at the time. I could also charge it with being Not Much Fun, but I get that that is the point. ![]() I vowed to complete the “June” Imaginary Book Club title by the end of July and by God I made it with just hours to spare! Suffice it to say, I did not realize what I was getting into when I picked this one, which turned out to be longer, denser and more self-consciously “literary” than I expected. This week, the June Selection, Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room.) ( Click here for information on the 2020 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. ![]()
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