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The Uncoupling
The Uncoupling: A Novel | Meg Wolitzer
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light. As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens.Read an essay about writing The Uncoupling from the author, Meg Wolitzer.
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DAB
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Found while strolling. My to read list is getting longer than my read list.

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kitteh_reads
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I'd never read this author before and now I can't wait to read her others! When the new drama teacher brings a controversial play to the high school play, a spell begins to start affecting all the local women. The intimate relationships of these women with their partners begins to decline, and how that decline affects those relationships. It was an interesting new take on the dynamics of a relationship.

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Leigh0906
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A successful trip to Scuppernog Books and Ed McKays in Greensboro. 😁 side note- I found the receipt and bookmark in the tagged book. I wish I knew how a book from Brooklyn made it down to NC! #bookhaul

Lcsmcat I ❤️Scuppernong! And one of my nieces works there. Are you local? (I‘m near Raleigh.) 6y
Leigh0906 @Lcsmcat not anymore! I lived in Greensboro while I was at UNCG for grad school. I‘m near Wilmington now, but I was just visiting for the weekend. Scuppernong opened my final year of school, and between there and the Green Bean, I‘ve probably spent a fortune 😝 6y
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BookMaven407
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Another sweet stack of used books. I can't help myself but keep telling myself it's ok, since I am on vacation. 🗄📚😜

ErikasMindfulShelf Great stack! 6y
cathysaid Logical. Also, everything is fat free when you're on vacation. Because...science. 6y
DebinHawaii Nice haul! 📚👍👍 6y
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BookMaven407 @cathysaid 😂totally! 6y
minkyb They look barely used. Great haul! 6y
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Camille2
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Notafraidofwords
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The premise: due to a spell, one by one, women and teenage girls turn away from sex, leaving their lovers confused and upset in a small town in NJ. While the premise is unique, this book never took off. The writing: clunky, uneven, judgmental. I would have liked more if it focused on how the body can lose passion or desire. Yet, it seemed to be nostalgic for a pre-internet age and a time where kids read books. Blah. Meh.

Hollie What a terrible spell! 7y
Notafraidofwords @Hollie lol, for the men in the book it was. See, I would have liked it if the author explored the spell, but nope. She didn't. 7y
kiminreverse I really liked her book The Interestings, and this one sounds like it has such an intriguing premise 😕 7y
Notafraidofwords @kiminreverse it's totally a unique premise and it started out okay, but it felt like it fell apart for me. 7y
Awolfe The point of the novel was definitely poignant; however, you were right, the story itself was extremely clunky. 7y
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Possibly slightly closer to so-so, because of the magical realist plot device of the high school play that steals womens' sex drives. :p. But underneath that ridiculousness, Wolitzer remains an astute observer of female sexuality and relationships. Neither prudish nor sensational in her telling.

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