The Ten-Year Nap
Our last meeting of the 2008-09 school year will include a discussion of The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer and a potluck salad supper! Please bring a dish to share and your own beverage, and dessert will be provided. We will meet at noon on Tuesday, May 5 in the Reading Room.
More about the book:
For a group of New York friends, the past decade has been defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they could have it all, they left high-level jobs to stay home with their babies. Now at forty, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not what they expected. When Amy meets a charismatic, successful working mother of three who appears to have managed love, motherhood, and a career, she becomes plagued by "what-ifs." And as Amy's obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers--until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely. Wolitzer is the author of The Position; The Wife; Surrender, Dorothy and other titles.