"Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her; her mother and her circle of feisty widows, her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes -- a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers."

I tried to read this book, but unfortunately it wasn't for me...

There was still room in the envelope... Hopefully you will enjoy this book more than I did...

Thanks for this book, I have been wishing for this, without having it on my wishlist - lucky me:-)

I really enjoyed this one. Not a happy story, but and interesting description of women and the problems/issues of different generations.

Given to another book crosser at the BC meeting in Stavanger.

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Handed over to lunacia.

I got this from shalott-me today. I have never read anything by Siri Hustvedt, but have wanted to for quite a while. Looking forward to read this!

I just had to read this, so I put all other books aside for it.

Haugtussa wants to read it when I'm done.

Handed over to Haugtussa at the meetup today.

Got the book today at the meet-up, and started reading it on the bus back home. Couldn't really concentrate as someone was shooting a film on the same bus! A girl and a boy storming into the bus, he following her whilst eating an apple! I do wonder what it was all about...

I've finished the book - and I can't really say that I enjoyed it. It's not that kind of a book. But the characters did grip me.

This book was placed at the feet of Varg Veum.
The book is taking part in the Monopoly game, turn 13, for team Racecar.

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