From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work.
Riverhead
April 2008
On Sale: March 27, 2008
368 pages ISBN: 1594489785 EAN: 9781594489785 Hardcover Add to Wish List
For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has
been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated
and reared to believe that they would conquer the world,
they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment
bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies.
What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted
a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young
motherhood behind them and without professions to define
them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not
what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one
they have chosen.
But when Amy gets to know a
charismatic and successful working mother of three who
appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of
having it all-work, love, family-without having to give
anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical
and existential, opens up. As Amy's obsession with this
woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to
confront the choices they've made in opting out of their
careers-until a series of startling events shatters the
peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.
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 these women with candor, wit,
and generosity.
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