Kate Walbert reads from A Short History of Women | Haight

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A Short History of Women spans more than one hundred years and five generations of women—beginning with the death by starvation of a suffragette in England and ending with a playdate on the Upper West Side. Filled with humor and rage, it is a complex, compact novel that claims England and America in its epic scope — from the politicization of women for the vote in the early 20th century to the free-floating, un-nameable anxiety of mothers and daughters in the early 21st century. The novel looks backward and forward, each century a striation of rock, each character defined by the pressures and weather of her particular moment; through this layering the characters react in lively and unpredictable ways to what came before, furthering the ambitious woman’s ongoing argument with history. Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review, A Short History of Women is this talented novelist’s most audacious and ambitious work yet.

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