Normal Women: From the Number One Bestselling Author Comes 900 Years of Women Making History

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Several subplots are introduced and quickly abandoned with little to no impact on the events of the book. You include all these snarky little asides, all this deliciously toxic passive aggressiveness about how men think they’re helping when they’re really not, and how they’re emotionally stunted, and how they can be manipulated, but with these brilliant little glimmers of they’re trying their best in a rigged system AND you couple that with commentary about how being a woman is an endless contradiction, but no matter what you choose to do you're doing it wrong in society’s eyes. Dani and the other Normal Women brought forth different aspirations and hopes reflected in many women, especially mothers, without shying away from the things that cause doubt and fear.

Summary: Dani is a new mother who has moved back to her hometown with her husband who took a very lucrative job. This is my personal opinion, I may be missing an obvious point of the story, so please do share your thoughts with me!

I love sipping my tea and watching rich women scream at each other and talk crap about their husbands. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. Explanations vary across the centuries from women's lack of upper-body strength to the demands of motherhood and patriarchal oppression, but one thing is certain - the pay gap never closes. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses.

they should have the ability to advocate for their own fulfillment even if it comes from unconventional sources, infringes on time spent at home performing ~homemaker duties~, allows them to spend their energy on themselves and not their husband or child (radical, huh? She’s just moved back to her hometown, where her father was once known as the Garbage King; she’s fed up of not being a manicure-sporting, perfectly coiffed Normal Woman; and most of all, she’s worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, will drop dead, leaving her and her new baby Lotte destitute. And it was devastating to see how this was slowly eroded by a society of men who feared women's sexualities and independence.

I don't understand the sweeping criticism of this book, especially for those who enjoyed Motherthing. Normal Women follows the dismal, post-partum life of Dani--a suburban wife and new mother navigating a crisis of identify after the birth of her first baby. An exhilarating ride of a novel that deliciously and irreverently skewers the complacent, the entitled and the self-satisfied. I found this very heavy going as there is no narrative flow and too often reads as one long list of women's names after another. A darkly comic, kaleidoscopic novel of unhealthy fixations, love, murder, the gifts and wounds that family can inflict and one woman’s fight to save herself.