false 1235499 12 From the bestselling author of <i>The Wife</i> and <i>The Position</i>, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work. <br/><br/> For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one they have chosen. <br/><br/> But when Amy gets to know a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it all--work, love, family--without having to give anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. 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. <br/><br/> Written in Meg Wolitzer's inimitable, glittering style, <i>The Ten-Year Nap</i> is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of these women with candor, wit, and generosity. 1224129 27 3 2008 The Ten-Year Nap total:1862|5:96|4:405|3:687|2:490|1:184| 1862 5325 3288 692 4 13 false false Mon Mar 31 08:53:37 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:53:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 7 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 17:42:42 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 08:15:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:41:10 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 22:22:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 4 false false Thu May 08 13:41:57 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 12:12:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 07:54:13 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 07:59:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 4 false false Mon Nov 24 20:41:48 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 14:31:19 -0800 2009 Was given to me to read from a friend through her friend after hearing I was a stay-at-home-mom with a master's degree. Having never met me, the woman was curious to know how I felt about the book.
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