The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

I remember reading Meg Wolitzer way back when.....I think the first one I read was Friends for Life written in 1994!  Then I loved her book, The Interestings, written about 10 years ago.
I heard a lot about this book this year. It's gotten a lot of press because of the MeToo Movement, but she started writing it WAY before the scandals of the past year.
It's really smart and funny and insightful.  This is a blurb from the NPR book app:

How are you supposed to live in a world where so many people hate women? When Greer Kadetsky is groped at a frat party her freshman year, that is the question she begins to ask, and which animates Meg Wolitzer's wonderful novel. The characters in it ultimately answer these questions in different ways, but they all come to at least one conclusion: You have to do something, even if it's just, as one character says, managing to "live your life and be yourself with all your values intact."

When you read it, you wonder if Faith is fashioned after one of our feminist "icons?"  It's not important though. What the book says IS important!

Educated by Tara Westover

I heard Tara Westover interviewed on the NY Times Book Review podcast and knew I had to read the book.  It was a powerful and gripping interview - and a powerful and gripping and VERY disturbing book.  I am glad I read it, in spite of the fact that this TRUE story was so upsetting. I can't quite say uplifting in the end, even though Tara is a PhD from Cambridge.  I think she is still haunted by her past and always will be. But her escape is established by the end of the book and it seems likely that she will survive and thrive but with scars for life (physical ones, too.)
What a book!