Author: megwolitzer

A “big, necessary” New York Times bestseller (The Boston Globe): After quiet college student Greer meets a feminist leader, her life spirals in an entirely new direction… “Wonderfully dense and wise, a page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).

A “sprawling, marvelously inventive” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post): Six teenagers meet at summer camp — but can their friendship and talents carry them through adulthood? “A victory… Secures Wolitzer’s place among the best novelists of her generation” (Entertainment Weekly).

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Glenn Close Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man’s world. The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above … thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan’s husband, Joseph, is one of America’s preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty…