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The Ten-Year Nap

by Meg Wolitzer

From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work.

For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would... (more)

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mmz
  • Rated 4 stars

Chapters in this novel alternate between the modern-day lives of a group of women in New York City, all of whom have left careers behind to raise their children, and stories of their mothers or other women from an earlier generation, all of whom are feminists in their own way.

Wolitzer is telling us two things, I think. First, by contrasting the lives of mothers in the 1960s and '70s with those of their daughters in the late '90s and early 21st century, Wolitzer asks questions about...

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kairilily
  • Rated 2 stars

I tried really hard to get through this book, but I only made it about 100 pages in. I was so bored, I felt it would be better to move onto to something more enjoyable.

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  • Sheri F

    sheri f said:

    Good 'chick lit' read, but a wee bit depressing on the topics of motherhood, parenthood, and career life. Easy to read, but not uplifting or anything.

    posted Friday, May 23 2008

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