{"product_id":"159448354x-the_ten-_year_nap","title":"The Ten-Year Nap","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novel that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn't always that way. Growing up, they had been told that their generation would be different. And for a while this was true. They went to good colleges, and began high-powered careers. But after marriage and babies, for a variety of reasons, they decided to stay home, temporarily, to raise their children. Now, ten years later, they are still at home, unsure how they came to inhabit lives so different from the ones they expected—until a new series of events begins to change the landscape of their lives yet again, in ways they couldn't have predicted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in Meg Wolitzer's inimitable, glittering style, \u003ci\u003eThe Ten-Year Nap\u003c\/i\u003e is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of its women with candor, wit, and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\nThe Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Review\n\u003cp\u003eMeg Wolitzer has established herself, intentionally or not, as the fiction laureate of feminist social politics with her previous two novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Wife,\u003c\/i\u003e the story of a secret literary collaboration between an award-winning, philandering writer and his brilliant wife, and \u003ci\u003eThe Position,\u003c\/i\u003e which reveals the lasting impact of the sexual revolution on the four children of a pair of cultural provocateurs. Thus, \u003ci\u003eThe Ten-Year Nap\u003c\/i\u003e completes a trilogy of sorts, introducing four New York women who've opted out of their impressive careers to choose full-time motherhood and are finding themselves locked into what is now a familiar dilemma: how to be an ambidextrous Superwoman while negotiating a postnatal identity crisis. Lest readers think an F-word novel -- by which I mean feminist -- could only be humorless, unappealing, passé, or heavily weighed down with an agenda of some kind, they will be pleasantly disappointed by Wolitzer's droll, urbane wit and her spot-on depictions of women's lives amid the demanding, competitive, and exhilarating metropolis, as she dispels the media-perpetuated myth of the post-feminist era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Riverhead","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47905151680702,"sku":"159448354X-4","price":16.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/8159R2UtaOL.jpg?v=1783014129","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/159448354x-the_ten-_year_nap","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}