
The Book of V.
A Novel
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Narrado por:
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Dara Rosenberg
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Eva Kaminsky
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Gabra Zackman
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Anna Solomon
An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production
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.
Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. 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.
Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington DC 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.
Esther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. 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.
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.
An NPR Best Book of the Year - 2020
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year - 2020
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
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Not my thing!
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I listened to it...now I'd love to read it
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Annoying.
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Solomon explores women’s struggles through the ages, beginning with the biblical story of Esther of ancient Persia. I am not a bible scholar, so this is my introduction to Esther and Vashti. Solomon caused me to google the story, of which biblical scholars have differing views. I like Solomon’s view. Esther becomes queen when Vashti doesn’t produce an heir and refuses her husband’s demand of a degrading act. Esther doesn’t want to be queen, is forced into the fray by her Uncle. So, Esther is the only woman who parades in front to the King for his choice in a new Queen. Esther choses to be without any makeup or adornment, attempting to look plain because she doesn’t want to be selected. The King picks her because he likes that she was “natural”. Esther is not pleased, but it provides her an opportunity to save her people.
Meanwhile, in another century is Vee Kent whose husband is a Rhode Island Senator in 1973. Vee is on the cusp of the woman’s right movement. Her ideals of her place in society clashes with the old boy network. Although Vee has a generational pedigree, making her the perfect politician wife, she is banished when she refuses to do something her husband demands. This is part of the story that I found enraging. Vee decamps to an old friend’s (Rosemary) home where she tries to find her equilibrium.
Lily is a contemporary mother living in 2016 Brooklyn. She struggles with her role as a mother and woman. Her mother, Ruth, uses innuendo to ridicule Lily for wanting to be nothing but a mother. Ruth is perplexed as to why Lily isn’t becoming a full-time feminist. Lily questions herself as being relevant and worthy, for not becoming what she was meant to become.
These three main characters have their specific chapters, and Solomon weaves a story that provides illumination that women are fighting the same fights through the centuries. Vee’s story is humbling in her strength to find independence. Lily learns about the complexities of her mother after her mother dies.
This is a feminist tale that provides insight of the same yet changing women struggles for independence and self-worth. Male debasement may be less, but the fight for self-realization continues.
amazing
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Friendship
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Definitely, not a fan
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A wasted credit
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not great
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Don’t waste time
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