A review by calamity3jane
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen

5.0

A quiet series of interconnected tales, evocative of a life silenced by the determination of gender. Olsen came to writing late in life, is largely self-taught and embodies the incarcerated mind of woman in America. This novel in the form of stories is at a glance straightforward, time as depicted by the woman at the ironing board. The finale betrays the complications, the swallowed bitterness of that dying generation who believed in the American Dream.