The Female Persuasion

464 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2018

ISBN:: 978-1-59448-840-5

(6 reviews)

Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined

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3 stars

Based on summaries, I should have loved this book. Instead, I though it was fine but disappointing: 2.5 stars. The plot and characters exist mainly to express the author’s ideas about the differences between second, third, and fourth-wave feminism, and about relationships between the women whose personal experiences coincided with those eras and movements. I don’t have a problem with using a novel as a vehicle for expressing political or social ideas, but the story needs to be compelling on its own, outside of being a vehicle for those ideas. This just wasn’t.