![]() ![]() She’s a passive good girl struggling to establish a new identity now that she’s at college, and becoming increasingly unsure that she can coast on being “the smart one” any longer. Greer is a college freshman when we meet her, resentfully attending a third-tier liberal arts college after her stoner parents neglected to fill out the financial aid forms for Yale. Our two central women are Greer Kadetsky and Faith Frank, overachieving fourth-waver and aging second-wave icon, respectively, and their vexed, intimate relationship forms the heart of the novel. ![]() The Female Persuasion’s central relationship unites two generations of feminism It is the messy, painful emotions of this book, rendered by Wolitzer with exacting specificity, that make it so stunning, while its zeitgeisty politics are rather beside the point. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markįor the two women at the center of the novel, feminism offers not just political purpose but, more crucially, a chance to find the attention and approval they so deeply crave. ![]()
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