The Wrong Kind of Woman - Book Review

 

The Wrong Kind Of Woman by Sarah McCraw Crow

 

A little about the book from HarperCollins:

 

 A powerful exploration of what a woman can be when what she should be is no longer an option

In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire men’s college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husband’s prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the faculty—dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts—she now finds herself depending on them, even joining their work to bring the women’s movement to Clarendon College.

Soon, though, reports of violent protests across the country reach this sleepy New England town, stirring tensions between the fraternal establishment of Clarendon and those calling for change. As authorities attempt to tamp down “radical elements,” Virginia must decide whether she’s willing to put herself and her family at risk for a cause that had never felt like her own.

Told through alternating perspectives, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story about finding the strength to forge new paths, beautifully woven against the rapid changes of the early ’70s.

 

My Review after reading the book:

Just before Christmas in 1970, Oliver Desmarais dies suddenly leaving his wife Virginia and daughter Rebecca to mourn and rebuild their lives. Virginia, not knowing where she fits anymore after losing her job, embarks on new friendships with four interesting women from the college her husband worked for. These women are forward thinkers, trying to make a change in a male dominated world. With political unrest, social injustice, and women’s rights, can Virginia be the role model she needs to be for her daughter and help the women make the change that the world so desperately needs?

This was a powerful novel of self discovery. The reader gets to witness the 1970’s through the eyes of not only Virginia, but also her daughter Rebecca and Sam, a student of Oliver’s. Three different people all emerging to becoming something from the loss they suffered. This story also has many similarities to the changes we are all facing today amidst the pandemic and the world we now live in. Thank you so much to the author Sara McCraw Crow, HarperCollins Publishing and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book to review. It was riveting! All opinions expressed for this review are unbiased and entirely my own.

 

Sarah McCraw Crow grew up in Virginia but has lived most of her adult life in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has run in Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Good Housekeeping, So to Speak, Waccamaw, and Stanford Alumni Magazine. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford University, and is finishing an MFA degree at Vermont College of Fine Arts. When she's not reading or writing, she's probably gardening or snowshoeing (depending on the weather).

 

Author website: https://sarahmccrawcrow.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahmcrow?lang=en

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15502401.Sarah_McCraw_Crow

 

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Kind-Woman-Novel/dp/0778310078

Barnes & Noble:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wrong-kind-of-woman-sarah-mccraw-crow/1134767509?ean=9780778310075

IndieBound:  https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780778310075

Books-A-Million: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Wrong-Kind-Woman/Sarah-McCraw-Crow/9780778310075?id=7941582454467

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Sarah_McCraw_Crow_The_Wrong_Kind_of_Woman?id=pbe8DwAAQBAJ

 

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