6/22/2023 0 Comments Of the female persuasionIt’s easy to fall in love with her, and with Greer, and with Greer’s boyfriend, Cory, and her best friend, Zee: They’re all deep, interesting characters who want to find ways to support themselves while doing good in the world and having meaningful, pleasurable lives. Wolitzer ( Belzhar, 2014, etc.) likes to entice readers with strings of appealing adjectives and juicy details: Faith is both “rich, sophisticated, knowledgeable” and “intense and serious and witty,” and she always wears a pair of sexy suede boots. That might not be the most cutting-edge approach to feminism, Greer knows, but it will help her enter the conversation. Like a magical amulet in a fairy tale, that card leads Greer to a whole new life: After graduation, she gets a job working for Faith’s foundation, Loci, which sponsors conferences about women’s issues. During the question-and-answer period, Greer stands up to recount her assault and the college’s lackluster response, and, later, Faith gives her a business card. Then Greer meets Faith Frank, a second-wave feminist icon who’s come to speak at Ryland. This isn’t the life she was meant to lead: “You to find a way to make your world dynamic,” she thinks. On Greer Kadetsky’s first weekend at Ryland College-a mediocre school she’s attending because her parents were too feckless to fill out Yale’s financial aid form-she gets groped at a frat party. A decade in the life of a smart, earnest young woman trying to make her way in the world.
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