The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer

A Beautifully Backlit Novel

The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are

thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joans

husband, Joseph, is one of Americas preeminent novelists, about to

receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty

years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career,

has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer

flashes back to 1950s Smith College and Greenwich Village and follows

the course of the marriage that has brought the couple to this breaking

point -- one that results in a shocking revelation. With her skillful

storytelling and pitch-perfect observations, Wolitzer has crafted a wise and

candid look at the choices all men and women make -- in marriage, work, and life.

This is a powerful account of a woman writer who came of age before the

feminist revolution and who felt powerless to overcome her own and

societys shackles. Her awful compromise, revealed at the end, pours light

back over the preceeding chapters in a revealing and appealing way.

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