Eric Lawton reviewed Three Women by Marge Piercy
Excellent. One of Piercy's top ten
5 stars
I have had this for a while and it kept slipping down my "to read" pile. What a mistake. A brilliant portrayal of a complex family.
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 24, 2001 by Harper Perennial.
A novel on an unusual household in our day and age, three generations of women living together in Boston. They are a lawyer who owns the house, her ailing mother--the mother had no time for the lawyer before she fell ill--and the lawyer's daughter, unemployed and on drugs.
I have had this for a while and it kept slipping down my "to read" pile. What a mistake. A brilliant portrayal of a complex family.