by Kate Walbert
I am lucky in the way that the women in Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women are not. Because I was born after more than a century of women’s suffrage and liberation movements, I had so many more paths open to me than the women in this book. I was never prevented from voting. I was never expected...
The sum is less than the parts.
Eh. I'd read some great reviews of this, but I just couldn't get into it. Too disjointed. It traces the paths of 3 or 4 different women along the same genealogical line, great-grandmother down to great-granddaughter. It keeps jumping back and forth, without substantially different voices for the...
why: I like collections of related short stories.
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