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Like The Women's Room. Focuses on women's lives 35 years after the women's movement.
French (The Women's Room; From Eve to Dawn) brings a novelist's eye, a scholar's sense of detail and a feminist's worldview to this didactic examination of marriage, parenthood, work and the creative process. Four friends meet to celebrate Lady Day, one of several "private holidays" celebrated at a Berkshires retreat for the affluent and artistic: Maddy, 76, a lawyer's wife and mother turned real estate agent; Emily, 70, a music teacher and composer; Alicia, 50, a New York-born writer whose psychologist husband has difficulty accepting his gay son; and Jenny, 30, an artist fitfully married to a more successful artist. In alternating chapters, French follows each woman as she struggles with her domestic grievances. To her credit, French provides no easy answers where families are concerned, though she has no problem defining what relationships are, what they ought to be and what the associated emotions feel like. And while her female characters are all strong and have no trouble finding success, the men feel uncomfortably campy, making this a novel for women with a progressive perspective on gender bias and an old-fashioned fondness for discussing the curveballs life lobs. Footnoted afterword and author bibliography by Stephanie Genty. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Christopher Doyle
reviewed In the Name of Friendship: A Novel on February 23, 2013
In the Name of Friendship: A Novel
I devoured Marilyn French's "The Women's Room" in the 70s. I went tot my local library looking for it to re-read, and found "In The Name of Friendship" which has been called the Women's Room II.
This book is set in the early 200s and follows a group of women who live near each other in Stevenson, MA. It is a melting pot of personalities and issues. Maddy, the Matriarch of the group who blames her family's issues on her parenting and is grieving the loss of her Vietnam damaged son. Emily, who is Maddy's oldest friend, deals with her estrangement and reconciliation of her brother's daughter she raised after he and his wife are killed in an auto accident. Alicia is trying to start Phase II of her life with her retired husband and dealing with her son coming out as gay, and her husband's reaction. Jenny is artists who is much younger (30s) that her neighbors and is dealing with a new marriage and want for a baby.
Each character has one common denominator - creatively independent, but not financially independent. Only Emily's niece, Clea, finds herself personally and professionally.
It was a good book of characters that all came together in the end when Emily's symphony (she panicked when she was making her own money) was performed. I liked the characters, but felt their stories were too wide apart. The area they lived was the glue they had, but it wasn't superglue...kept me looking for more
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