Maybe, and most likely, it’s because in the year 2018, I don’t need a feminism debate in my fiction because there’s enough of that going on in my real life. Maybe it’s because Wolitzer’s books are lengthy-I remember feeling the same when reading The Interestings and The Ten Year Nap-or maybe it’s because I found the end reveal to be anticlimactic and slight. While I enjoyed the majority of this book, I admit that I was ready for it to be over. It’s basically All About Eve, except set at Ms. magazine and not as bitchy. The Female Persuasion was one of my most-anticipated books of 2018 and it lived up to my expectations.Meg Wolitzer perfectly captures that disorienting time in college and early adulthood that so many people experience. Meg Wolitzer’s feminist literary novel, The Female Persuasion (2018), follows what happens when a shy college freshman is swept into a world of feminism, ambition, and power.Critics found The Female Persuasion an accurate portrayal of the difference between leaders and followers. Wolitzer insightfully writes about their complicated betrayals and loves, and the eventual power struggle that ends it all. Faith and Greer begin a mentor/mentee relationship that feels familiar to any woman who’s ever found herself on either (or both) sides of that dynamic. If a pink knit hat ever wrote a novel, it’d probably be this one.Īfter ambitious college student Greer gets groped by a fraternity boy who isn’t punished, she sets off on a woke path that leads her to Faith Frank, a Gloria Steinem-esque feminist icon. The Female Persuasion definitely has all of that, but this time the stronger theme is feminist history, both in its early days and now in the time of #MeToo. I’m a fan of Meg Wolitzer’s novels because of her smart, perceptive takes on motherhood, marriage and midlife.
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