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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Change - read recently based on DCUM. Revenge fantasy about women who get witchy powers after menopause. A little over the top but fun. [/quote]

Slightly more rooted in reality, but also a story of menopause:  Wayward by Dana Spiotta -- maybe my favorite book of 2022[/quote]

OP here - YES!  I loved that book!!  Have you read anything else she's written?  I've been meaning to try her earlier books . . . . [/quote]
So many bad reviews of Wayward on Amazon. You guys really thought it was good?[/quote]

NP here. It starts right after Trump was elected, and the character is a rich white older liberal woman who is dealing with feelings about that. I think that’s where most of the online vitriol comes from. Some people hate the character because she’s an entitled “Karen,” while others are probably offended conservatives. Ironically, the character has a lot of self-loathing precisely because of her demographic. Point being that people love to hate on Hilary Clinton types. And even Hilary Clinton types are trained to hate themselves.

Anyway, I liked the first half, but then it lost me. [/quote]
Thanks for this summary. I just started reading this book but will now return (7 people waiting). I read to try to escape from everyday life — I absolutely don’t  want to revisit any part of what you described. [/quote]

I’d say PP accurately described sone of the book’s situational/political context and one aspect of the (rather complex) main character. But the core plot and character arc are much bigger and more interesting than the Trump/Hillary context happening in the background, IMHO. To write it off as that narrow truly sells it short. [/quote]

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