The Ten-Year Nap
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer is a reprint edition published by Penguin Publishing Group on March 3, 2009. This 400-page novel explores the lives of four New York friends whose past decade has been shaped by marriage and motherhood. Initially, they were told their generation would be different, and they embarked on promising careers after attending good colleges. However, their choices led them to stay home to raise their children, and now, a decade later, they find themselves questioning how their lives diverged from their expectations.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the complexities of family life and the challenges faced by women in balancing personal aspirations with societal expectations. The story unfolds as a new series of events begins to alter the landscape of their lives, prompting reflection and change. Wolitzer’s writing is characterized by its observant and provocative style, offering insights into the experiences of women navigating their roles within family dynamics and friendships.
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The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere.
For 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.
Written in Meg Wolitzer’s inimitable, glittering style, The Ten-Year Nap is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of its women with candor, wit, and generosity.
Meg Wolitzers’s newest book, The Interestings, is now available from Riverhead Books.
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