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The Ten-Year Nap
by Meg Wolitzer
from Riverhead Hardcover

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• For Wolitzer At Her Best, Read The Wife Instead
  As a longtime reader of Meg Wolitzer's work, I was very much looking forward to The Ten-Year Nap and picked it up after returning from a brief vacation in New York City. While I could easily visualize real-life versions of Wolitzer's characters, pushing strollers up Lexington Ave or playing with their kids in one of Central Park's pastoral playgrounds, unfortunately that is where my engagement ended. I'm not sure if it's the characters that are out of touch, or their creator, but not a single one of these... more info

• A Slog of a Read
  I'm not a privileged, accomplished 40 something woman who gave up my career to be a full time mother, so I just didn't get it. I agree with other reviewers that there's a whole lot of whining, and not much happens save for an affair by a secondary character. Yes, you get the kids off to school, you go for coffee with friends and waste a morning. I'll bet a lot of women wouldn't mind spending their days like that. Life happens. Get over it. I wish I could say the writing was stellar, but it was just OK. I... more info

• Profound look at the state of affairs for women and men today
  I'm sorry to see this gem of a book is not getting better reviews. As a women in her 50s, I was interested in it only because I heard that the protagonists' mothers, who were the original 2nd wave feminists of the 60s and 70s (my generation), would also be represented. However, in reading about the 30-somethings, I was instantly transported back to the days of raising my son and all the dilemmas facing women who were caught between wanting careers and wanting to be mothers at the same time. Wolitzer does a... more info

• A difficult book to read...
  I also heard about this book on NPR and picked it up the next day. Being a stay at home mom to four children who are all in school I was hoping to get inspiration on how to approach this next stage in my life. However, I must say it did not come from this book.
  The book proved difficult to read due to many different character introductions and then flashbacks to that characters parents whose stories did not help me to understand the main characters more.
  The middle of the book was the most... more info

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