Meg Wolitzer

author, "The Female Persuasion"

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Author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Female Persuasion.

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Meg Wolitzer’s “The Female Persuasion” is her 12th book. She began writing it years before the “MeToo” movement, but it couldn’t have landed at a more appropriate time.

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Meg Wolitzer’s “The Female Persuasion” is her 12th book. She began writing it years before the “MeToo” movement, but it couldn’t have landed at a more appropriate time.

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