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It's not a murder mystery and the topic of extramarital affairs makes me uncomfortable due to deep-seated insecurities. I suppose this is where I should be sympathetic, but I really HATE everyone in this book by now and can gather no sympathy. Sandy may want more from her life but it isn't until a strange morning visitor on her lawn performs a lewd act that she is snapped out of haze of discontent.

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After saying all this, there is a part of me that wonders if I'm being too criticial of Blume's writing, in the light of her committment to stand up against censorship. I think I may know a Norman irl, someone who wants a routine and freedom to do his guy stuff and not have to say all that touchy-feely junk and is so confused why his wives have not stayed with him. I loved reading many of her books growing up and just earlier this month, enjoyed Summer Sisters, one of her other adult novels.

When he lunged at her, Sandy didn't think, but simply grabbed the can of Lysol and sprayed him full in the face. According to the introduction by Blume the main character dumps the husband and goes on an adventure.

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No one is likable, no one is relatable and to have this novel linked to the social shock waves from women's liberation just depresses me. Blume will serve as an executive producer on the project, with David Levine, Joy Gorman Wettels, and Steve Golin of Anonymous Content also executive producing. Blume sets up an outer, Republican Sandy, and an inner, Democrat Sandy, thereby keeping all of her selves shallow and political. It's ice water on the whole roaring women/girlpower idea, not all splashy-like and sudden but hypothermia-like and sneaky. There are far better books to chose from about late 60's/early 70's middle class doldrums and culture war casualties.I didn’t like Norman or his expectations of Sandy but I also didn’t care for her or many of the decisions she made. That is to say that this story about the inner life of a suburban housewife, written by a woman, fails the Bechtel test (credits to Ceridwen and Sock Puppet for bringing that wonderful invention to my notice). I hate that Sandy is stupid, that she betrayed her sister, that she can't figure out a healthy way out of her life, that she can't find a hobby, that she lives in fear and is a victim while knowingly hurts her husband. When that doesn't work out for every reason that you knew it wouldn't, (he loves his wife, can't abandon his family, why can't they just have this relationship on the side? When women frame them that way, I think it’s a smoke screen for an inner life of which they are honestly ashamed, or even of which they are so proud and protective that they can’t share it.

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In the end, Sandy does not find contentment, she finds a sort of compromise about what Norman is willing to do in their sex life. From her bedroom window, Sandy watches the man, who discards the sheet initially draped over him, masturbates, and then leaves on a motorcycle. She is not a person, she is cipher for a demographic of women whose crippled condition Blume wishes to convey. She has also written four novels for adults, In the Unlikely Event, Summer Sisters, Smart Women, and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers.I'm no prude but I found the vulgar language used to describe the main character's own anatomy offensive. I do not know when this and Summer Sisters was published, I thought these were older books, but boy does she love to talk about sex. I'm not actually sure what this story was and quite frankly wondering if I'm just too stupid to get it because I'm in the minority on this one - people may not love it, but they have found value in it. I can understand how this book could have been considered juicy and a bit scandalous when it was originally published but compared to other books, it felt cringey.

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Overall the novel is lightweight and superficial, and a far cry from the complexity of Erica Jong's 1973 ground-breaking "Fear of Flying. Judy received a BS in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A.A few seconds later, Norman was lying dead on the floor, and Sandy was standing over him, his blood and brain matter decorating her blouse.



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