![]() ![]() In Anna Solomon's The Book of V., these three characters' riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide, illuminating how women’s lives have and have not changed over thousands of years. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. But one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life-along with the lives of others.Įsther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. Esther is subjected to the whims of a powerful Persian king. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. In Anna Solomon’s latest novel, The Book of V., the oppositional forces of progress and reaction collide in the lives of three women from very different eras who try to overcome the stifling values of patriarchy. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. ![]() And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. ![]()
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