![]() Faith and Greer’s new outlet is Loci (pronounced Lo-sigh), a women’s empowerment speaker series funded by Faith’s former lover, billionaire Emmett Shrader. Book Reviews Profiling Historys Troublemaking Women, French Cartoonist Gets Brazen I loved this moment because of how clearly you can hear her self-consciousness fighting with her intelligence. The timid Greer finds her voice - a big theme of this book - to tell Faith about the college’s shrug of a response to a frat boy who is a serial sexual abuser.įaith acknowledges Greer’s pain, and years later, hires her for a new non-profit venture after her fusty feminist magazine, Bloomer, folds. When feminist icon Faith Frank visits Ryland College, Greer and her devoted pal Zee are among the worshipful in her thrall. Greer is furious her boyfriend Cory got into Yale and Princeton but chooses Princeton so as not to be a constant reminder to Greer of her plight. Smart-girl Greer Kadetsky got into Yale, but has been relegated to a lowly state school when her pothead parents neglect to return a crucial financial aid form. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best-selling author of The Interestings tackles feminism, friendship, loyalty and love amid campus sexual misconduct and the women’s empowerment movement. Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Female Persuasion (Riverhead, 454 pp., ★★★½ out of four), strikes at the third-rail topics of our times with the surety and sharpness of an arrow shot by an expert archer. ![]()
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