drraytay 's review for:

The Husbands by Chandler Baker

4.0

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This domestic thriller is like The Stepford Wives but with a modern day twist. One quote in the book really stuck out to me. “The delegator still needs to keep track of all the things that need to be delegated.” All jobs/tasks differ in the type of labor they require: physical, time, mental, spiritual, etc. What happens when one person in a household is expected to take on the vast majority of the mental labor and care tasks of the entire household on top their very demanding job? That’s the question for the majority of women around the world every day. The pandemic exacerbated the issue. This book asks why do some women seem to have it all together at home and what would it look like if the care task scales were tipped in the other direction? If you’re in charge of the care tasks at home, you may groan and roll your eyes countless times while reading this one. If you know, you know. The internalized misogyny was strong at times. It felt predictable at times but the tiny twist at the end made me gasp.