Wifey

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She has also written four novels for adults, In the Unlikely Event, Summer Sisters, Smart Women, and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. I do not believe that an experience between two adolescent girls lying naked in a bed would contain as little intimacy or feeling as Blume describes.

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are her only escape from her stultifying marriage to New Jersey dry cleaning magnate Norman Pressman. Sometimes she just carries these sexual fantasies through to their conclusions in her head, sometimes the real life encounters that she falls into are less than fantastical.

She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. For example, Sandy’s outer narrative is the happy homemaker, and Blume’s inner narrative of her is the scared little girl who longs for sexual freedom.

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I loved reading many of her books growing up and just earlier this month, enjoyed Summer Sisters, one of her other adult novels. Wifey” marks the first announced television project for Shaw since her Showtime series “SMILF”— which she created, starred in, served as showrunner on, and directed — was canceled last year amid allegations of misconduct. I think I may know a Norman irl, someone who wants a routine and freedom to do his guy stuff and not have to say all that touchy-feely junk and is so confused why his wives have not stayed with him. No one is likable, no one is relatable and to have this novel linked to the social shock waves from women's liberation just depresses me. Other than aitch-ee-double hockeysticks, I can only describe this book as a situation that would create a Romance reader.She married a solidly employed guy, they had a couple of kids, they live in a 3 bedroom, she has a dinner schedule. She is not a person, she is cipher for a demographic of women whose crippled condition Blume wishes to convey. I wouldn't suggest this book for anyone younger than 18 and only because by then they are legally an adult and can go to war so I guess they could handle it. From her bedroom window, Sandy watches the man, who discards the sheet initially draped over him, masturbates, and then leaves on a motorcycle.

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But see, she has a super-hoohaa that gives her fireworks twice each time she and her husband, Norman, have "a little something" so really, it's not the sex that she needs. She starts by looking up her friend in New York with an open marriage, has an unexpected encounter with her brother-in-law, and eventually reunites with Shep, who is interested in going further than they did in high school.Everywhere she turns she's controlled and it's frustrating, especially at the end when you see that's just the way it is, and was, for women of the times then.