Eric Lawton reviewed The Third Child by Marge Piercy
Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, …
Almost as good as "Three Women"
5 stars
I should have waited a bit after reading "Three Women" because of their similarities.
Still, another excellent character, family and social study, this time focused around US politics. It's told from the point of view of the third child in the family who, unfortunately for us, is excluded from the politics that I would have liked to heard more about, but still reveals a good deal about how disconnected US politics is from the needs of Americans.