A review by laila4343
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

5.0

I am such a sucker for a book like this! Although I'm not yet a mother, I think this book is valuable also for it's honest portrayal of marriage and women's friendships. It follows 4 friends, all stay-at-home-moms, as they navigate the realization that their children are growing up and no longer need them to be right there all the time. So they're doing a lot of soul searching about what they want to do with the rest of their lives, how they relate to one another and to their spouses. It also has brief chapters about their own mothers, I think to portray how things have not changed all that much for women in the last 40 years. It was a very realistic and fast-paced novel.