![]() When I was a kid, my uncle came to visit from California and gave my sister and me record albums. I wish I could wear that slightly grimy hooded sweatshirt of hers for the rest of my life, and be secretly intrepid and nerdy and never exactly get any older. ![]() There’s a moment about the death of a child in this wonderful novel, handled subtly, tremendously and then Rachman shows us the quiet destruction of her father, seen from afar.Ģ. ![]() The latest book or movie that made you cry? Wolitzer taks with PopMatters 20 Questions about, among other things, the simple pleasures of a man shirt.ġ. The Uncoupling looks at how women feel about men, marriage, love and sex, and what it really means to say no. When a new drama teacher in a suburban high school puts on a production of Lysistrata (the classic Aristophanes play in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike against men until a war ends), the women and girls – healthy grown women and teenage girls – of the school community find that they have been placed under a kind of “spell”––and that their own feelings toward the males in their lives have changed drastically, and perhaps irrevocably, overnight. The Uncoupling is bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s ninth novel in which she brings her signature brand of humor and insight to the topic of the changing nature of female desire over time. ![]()
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