I have a chair at home named ‘Liefarne.’ ” It seems unbelievable that Faith’s hungry employees, waiting for dinner to be served, could be captivated by this speech, and “no one had the recessive, tuned-out quality that could happen when groups of people got together and drank. Though they probably call it something cute - the way Ikea names all its furniture, so it sounds better. Even in highly evolved places like Sweden and Norway, women end up doing most of the s-twork. And that sets them up for housewifery and the double day. Because no matter how fair a society is, it’s still going to be women who have babies.

We need to keep thinking about the role that economics plays. “Our foundation has to look at all of it. “I’ve noted that when people speak about feminism they take one tack or the other,” Faith says to her assembled staff in her kitchen while tossing a salad.

Nina Kenwood is the marketing manager for Readings.It’s a daunting task for any novelist to express her characters’ political views without growing pedantic, and Wolitzer doesn’t entirely avoid that trap. Highly recommended for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jonathan Franzen, The Female Persuasion is set to be one of the must-read novels of the year. It’s packed with ideas, and perfect for book clubs. This is the kind of big, juicy literary novel that you will press on your friends. A section in the middle devoted to Cory left me weeping so much, I had to put the book down. Wolitzer writes with tenderness and precision about all of her characters, and two of the most interesting are Cory, Greer’s long-term boyfriend, and Zee, her best friend from college. The Female Persuasion is a deeply satisfying, intelligent work of fiction. The breezy novel skewers mainstream contemporary. It is this job that leads Greer to grapple with her relationships, friendships and her very understanding of who she is, and who she wants to be. To that end, The Female Persuasion gently and lovingly satirizes all who dare to carry the banner for a cause. Greer attends an event where Faith is speaking, and she is instantly dazzled by the older woman’s charm years later, as a graduate, Greer lands a job at Faith’s newly launched women’s foundation. It is centered around two characters: Greer Kadetsky, who we meet as an anxious, striving eighteen-year-old, and Faith Frank, a glamorous, second-wave feminist figure in her sixties who is ‘a couple of steps down from Gloria Steinem in fame’. Much like her previous novel The Interestings, I found Meg Wolitzer’s new book The Female Persuasion to be completely immersive.

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