The Ten-Year Nap

Description

For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn’t always that way. Growing up, they had been told that their generation would be different. And for a while this was true. They went to good colleges and began high-powered careers. But after marriage and babies, for a variety of reasons, they decided to stay home, temporarily, to raise their children. Now, ten years later, they are still at home, unsure how they came to inhabit lives so different from the ones they expected—until a new series of events begins to change the landscape of their lives yet again, in ways they couldn’t have predicted. Written in Meg Wolitzer’s inimitable, glittering style, The Ten-Year Nap is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of its women with candor, wit, and generosity. Meg Wolitzers's newest book, The Interestings, is now available from Riverhead Books.

Description

What happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work? Four friends are forced to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers--until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.

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Other Editions

• The Ten-Year NapHardcoverRiverhead Books2008-03-27
• Ten-Year NapPenguin Random House2008-01-01
• The Ten-Year NapElectronic resourcePenguin Group USA, Inc.2008-01-01
• The ten-year napCenter Point Pub.2008-01-01
• Ten-Year NapPenguin Random House2008-01-01
• The ten-year napRiverhead Books2008-01-01