I also can’t claim to know what it’s like to live through this world as a woman, but I’d like to venture that I at least share a common anger with the women in my life. I share it as a son who watched his mother (a single mother with a degenerative disease who had to raise two children on a part-time income) fight for her due respect in her professional and personal worlds. I share it as a husband who, literally while writing this novel, watched his wife deal with a mysterious, occasionally debilitating chronic pain and was witness to innumerable doctors’ appointments where her discomfort was
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