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Book Review of The Ten-Year Nap

The Ten-Year Nap
The Ten-Year Nap
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1


A disappointment. I was totally drawn into the premise - just how does a professional woman rejoin the career world after taking time off to raise children? But the main characters don't actually jump start their careers until the very end of the book, almost like an afterthought. I thought the transition from at-home to back-to-work would be the meat of the story. I did like the shared narrative between main characters, which kept the story more interesting than it would have been otherwise. But overall, I did not find the main characters very likeable and the prose did not draw me into the story.