Dietland by Sarai Walker

I think this is a really important book that most people will not read - it's difficult. It starts out kind of funny and light and then turns into something very serious. But it's not quite real - you think to yourself, "This can't happen!" but you also think to yourself, "This SHOULD happen!"  (without the murder, I guess)

The Economist favorably reviews this  book! But will it sell?  NO! For exactly the same reason that it was written.  The way women are treated, in spite of the women's movement and the progress being made, has not changed much in reality. At least not in the minds of many.

I love Annalisa Quinn's last paragraph in her review on npr.org:

I've never dropped anyone out of a helicopter. But Dietland resonated with the part of me that wants, just once, to deck a street harasser. At the very least, I wish an incurable itch upon everyone who has catcalled me on the street. I wish food poisoning and public embarrassment on everyone I've heard make a rape joke. I wish toothache and head lice and too-small shoes upon every stranger who has told me to smile. Which is to say, sometimes I forget I'm angry, but I am. Dietland is a complicated, thoughtful and powerful expression of that same anger.