A review by emilyinparis
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

3.75

‘Bitterness, she knew, could give you an edge. Unlike pure happiness, bitterness had a taste’

‘To commit to actual things composed of wood and metal and fabric was to make real the vagueness and unreality of love’

‘She was finally not as angry at her parents as she used to be, she realised—they were too marginal for that, too weak—but her connection to them seemed vague, as if she had to remember who exactly these two people were’ 

‘Greer saw herself now as if through Cory’s vision; she imagined herself seen by him through the doorway, the light in the room gilded’