Mrs. Everything: A Novel

"The women who came of age in the 1960s and ‘70s are often known to literature only as muses or objects of desire in the many stories of men of the Age of Aquarius. But Mrs. Everything is a deeply felt, moving history of two members of this “lost” generation. The novel alternates between two sisters, Jo and Bethie Kaufman, whose lives are shaped by forces beyond their control, often in the form of men and male violence. They endure but suffer terrible losses along the way – the revealing of what the title means is one of the most casually tragic moments I can remember reading. Jennifer Weiner follows these two women for decades as they navigate a world that was not nearly as “liberated” as it liked to think."