Meg Wolitzer

In the wake of a drama teacher's decision to direct "Lysistrata" for the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject their husbands and boyfriends in ways that force both men and women to reevaluate their views on relationships and sexuality.

The uncoupling

kate humphreys 

listened to this audiobook with baylie <3 definitely my least favorite wolitzer so far but it’s not easy to live up to the absolute masterpieces that are the female persuasion and sleepwalking - i was very excited at this premise and now i need to look further into lysistrata because i’m appalled that i haven’t heard of it until now

Carroll Lachnit

There's a little bit of a magical gimmick here, but an enjoyable one. Or maybe it was a metaphor? In any event, an engrossing, funny, sometimes uncomfortable picture of love, marriage, extramarital hijinks, the pain of being fat...you name it. I'm liking Wolitzer quite a bit.

What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike? For the people of Stellar Plains, the staging of a new school production of an Athenian drama coincides with a mysterious cold wind that blows into houses and into hearts, stilling passion and cooling sheets. As the play moves into dress rehearsal and discontent simmers, opening night cannot come a moment too soon...

The Uncoupling

Tracey O’Rourke

I was put off by this book, almost from the beginning. The general idea, that a town full of women are put off of sex by a mysterious spell running through the town, was uninteresting to me. They all quit, not really knowing why, but most frustratingly, not asking why. Did no one care? Did they all take it as the natural course of things? It made no sense. 

I ended up reading the whole thing, liking it more in some areas, and less in others, and then finally just buckling in and finishing it. The conclusion was not particularly satisfactory. 

Pretty well written, but not a great read.

Emily C Peterson

This was basically a modern retelling of Lysistrata with a splash of magical realism. I adored it

Kourtney

I picked this up on the discount shelf, and now I see why. The book sounded promising, but the execution was poor. Very slow and hard to relate to – I ended up skimming the last half of the book and I don’t feel like I missed out on any of the story. I hope The Interestings is more interesting than this one!

Daryl Houston

This is the fourth Wolitzer book I've read in pretty rapid succession. I liked it. It was sort of a neat idea, and it's an easy read. Wolitzer's humor and her ability to observe and describe things very closely are in evidence here. I haven't read a bad Wolitzer book yet, though The Interestings is far and away my favorite of the four I've read.

Neta Harris

Martha F.

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Hannah Swithinbank

shelby mosel

Baylie Madison

Katherine Leibel

Malgorzata Olszewska

Shannon Arputharaj

Stephanie Cox

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Ten-Year Nap" comes a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire.

The uncoupling

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