A review by brennanaphone
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

5.0

I wish in high school someone could have told me that the literary world of the 1960s wasn't dominated solely by deeply male perspectives like J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac. If I had known women like Edna O'Brien were writing frankly about sex, age gaps, power dynamics, infidelity, and abuse, I would have signed the hell up. Easily one of the most honest and insightful writers of that time period.