The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
started by Chavda Ashok 5 mnths agoMeg Wolitzer's new best seller " The Ten Year Nap" is about four middle-aged NY ladies who have sacrificed their careers to be with their babies. For this group of four New York friends, the last ten years has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a full decade. Now, at age forty, with the days of young motherhood behind them and without careers to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta and Karen wake up to a life that is not what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one they have chosen.
But when Amy gets to know a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it all --- work, love, family-without having to give anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As Amy's obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers --- until a series of revealing events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape totally.
After reading The Ten Year Nap, one can say that her writing is worth staying awake for. 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.
Her earlier books "The Wife" (2003) was a startling story about a 1950s marriage in which a talented woman took the role of helpmate to extremes, ghostwriting her less-talented husband's prizewinning books. In "The Position" (2005), the children of the authors of a "Joy of Sex"-type manual cope with fallout from the sexual revolution. The underlying theme of both is an idea expressed by a character in the new novel: that women have been given "a raw deal in society."
Wolitzer's earlier books, "The Wife" (2003) was a heartwarming story about a marriage in fifties, where a very talented woman is helping her husband's who is much less talented. She was ghostwriting for her husband's prizewinning books. and in her other book "The Position" 2005, The kids of the authos of a "Joy of Sex" type manual faces sexual revolution. The main theme of both the books was an idea expressed by Amy in the new novel: Women have been given a raw deal in society.
The Ten year Nap is must read for all the career oriented ladies.
The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
But when Amy gets to know a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it all --- work, love, family-without having to give anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As Amy's obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers --- until a series of revealing events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape totally.
After reading The Ten Year Nap, one can say that her writing is worth staying awake for. 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.
Her earlier books "The Wife" (2003) was a startling story about a 1950s marriage in which a talented woman took the role of helpmate to extremes, ghostwriting her less-talented husband's prizewinning books. In "The Position" (2005), the children of the authors of a "Joy of Sex"-type manual cope with fallout from the sexual revolution. The underlying theme of both is an idea expressed by a character in the new novel: that women have been given "a raw deal in society."
Wolitzer's earlier books, "The Wife" (2003) was a heartwarming story about a marriage in fifties, where a very talented woman is helping her husband's who is much less talented. She was ghostwriting for her husband's prizewinning books. and in her other book "The Position" 2005, The kids of the authos of a "Joy of Sex" type manual faces sexual revolution. The main theme of both the books was an idea expressed by Amy in the new novel: Women have been given a raw deal in society.
The Ten year Nap is must read for all the career oriented ladies.
The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer