Title: One family's story, and more
Product review: Meg Wolitzer's been steadily building strength over the course of her career, and I thought she'd really peaked with The Wife -- until I picked up this book. The narrative is so assured, and laugh out loud funny, that it's impossible to put down. With a steady hand she shifts point of view chapter by chapter, as if passing a relay baton from character to character, painting a complex and complete picture of one colorful family then (in the 1970s) and now, until the very end when The Position becomes more than just the portrait of one family or an era (or a sex act!). It's a crazy, beautiful meditation on how each of us, with our own unique dysfunctions, finds happiness.
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