A review by exceptionalcephalopod
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer

2.0

My biggest problem with this collection was that it seemed to me that I was reading the same story over and over again. I'd say about 90% of the contributors are upper-middle class, middle aged white women who are writers, live in New York City and do yoga. It also seemed to me that none of them really offered any advice or in some cases, a coherent story line. I got the feeling that a lot of them contributed just to get something off of their chests, no necessarily to offer help to any other women. I think I just expected too much from the book -- maybe that's all it was ever meant to be. There were some gems in here - "The Fat Lady Sings" and "The Middle Way", to name a few - which is why it grudingly gets 2 stars. But for the most part, I didn't come away with a whole lot from this collection.