A Wickedly Observant Take on the Choices that Modern Mothers Face, by the Author of The Position. For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to belie...

"[Wolitzer] writes in warm, specific prose that neither calls attention to itself nor ignores the mandate of the best books: to tell us things we know in ways we never thought to know them... [She] is an infinitely capable creator of ...

As with her bestselling The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles another riveting, relevant issue for women's lives. When the new drama teacher chooses to stage the Greek play Lysistrata—in which women swear off sex to stop a war—a simi...