Archive for July 9, 2009
A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN by Kate Walbert
My introduction to Kate Walbert was through her amazing novel THE GARDENS OF KYOTO, in 2001, a book which, I said in a 2001 review, was “immensely powerful in effect, elegant in its composition…and quiet, subtle, and cerebral” with its message, a novel with fully developed characters. If I’d kept Favorites of the Year in 2001, this one would have been near the top. A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN is quite a different book, a book in which the message is the most important aspect of the book—a message about the history of women, where we are now, and how we got here.
July 9, 2009
Tags: mothers & daughters, women's movement Posted in: Book Club Choice, Fiction based on Time Period, Women's Fiction 
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