Hardcover, 240 pages
Published March 2nd 2021 by Hogarth Press
Original Title:The Life of the Mind
ISBN:593229894 , (ISBN13: 2147483647)
As an adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her boyfriend knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists--Dorothy has two of them. Nor can she bring herself to tell the other women in her life: her friends, her doctor, her mentor, her mother. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the victories of feminism. So why does she feel like a failure?
I'm kinda obsessed with this book and the absolute audacity it has to distill what's terrible about 21st century living into a slim, 229-paged novel.
2023-07-16
3.5 rounded up. Nearly the entirety of the narrative is an inner monologue.
2023-07-16