![]() ![]() ![]() At Ryland College, Greer meets two women who will change her life: Zee, a queer activist who becomes her best friend, and Faith Frank, a gorgeously aging Gloria Steinem-lite whose book “The Female Persuasion” is an enduring if dated classic of second-wave feminism. Greer Kadetsky, the soft-spoken but ambitious daughter of aimless Massachusetts hippies, longs for greater things she and her high-school sweetheart Cory Pinto are described early in the book as “twin rocket ships.” But while Cory’s rocket makes it to Princeton, Greer, hampered by her parents’ (and her) lack of follow-through, winds up at a third-tier liberal arts college, a disappointment that leaves her with a permanent case of status anxiety. ![]() “The Female Persuasion,” Wolitzer’s 10th book for adults (she has also written for middle-grade and young-adult audiences), aims just as high, merging two subjects she returns to again and again: talented young people growing to adulthood, and women’s changing lives in the aftermath of second-wave feminism. ![]()
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