A review by emilyacgm
The Submission by Amy Waldman

4.0

While reading, I thought the author strident, but in the ending, I find her quite perceptive. She created and showed the complexities of the two main characters, the vast and great pressures on both of them and their valiant attempts to resist those pressures to remain true to themselves. And, she shows the complexity of regret years later—understanding why and how one thought the way one did, acted the way one did, while also looking with the perspective of time and seeing how or why the act/decision was wrong.

I’m much more affected and impressed by this novel than I expected to be. The Epilogue really made the piece powerful and reflective. And, it doesn’t end with simple easy answers, so the reader is left to think that, hopefully, America will end in the Right eventually but the issues and way we get there will never be simple or easy and, perhaps, the complexity and process is just as important as the end result.