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A review by erinbro1
The Group by Mary McCarthy
3.0
The Group has been on my TBR list for years and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. It won't be a favorite, but it's a fascinating look at how life both has and hasn't changed for women over the past (almost) 100 years or so. The setting was a little odd to me - I know it's taking place around the 1930s but it really felt like all of this was happening in the 50s or 60s, and I think McCarthy would have been better off setting the novel in her present day.
There are a lot of characters, but the structure of the novel is short-story like in its focus on each of the women in the Group and how they relate to each other. Some parts of it dragged when it got into really specific details about the characters, but any time they were actually interacting with each other, I was riveted.
There are a lot of characters, but the structure of the novel is short-story like in its focus on each of the women in the Group and how they relate to each other. Some parts of it dragged when it got into really specific details about the characters, but any time they were actually interacting with each other, I was riveted.