Book Review: The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton (173)

The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton

A nice,gentle story that is written with such love. This doesn’t appear to be much of a story on the whole, but once you get to know these characters, you will really enjoy it. It reminded me a lot of books like the YAYA Sisters and The Help, but I enjoyed this one much more than The Help. This is another one of those books that sneaks up on you. You won’t realize how much you enjoyed it until you put it down.

Product Description

Five women, one passion, and the unbreakable bond of friendshipWhen five young mothers–Frankie, Linda, Kath, Ally, and Brett–first meet in a neighborhood park in the late 1960s, their conversations center on marriage, raising children, and a shared love of books. Then one evening, as they gather to watch the Miss America Pageant, Linda admits that she aspires to write a novel herself, and the Wednesday Sisters Writing Society is born. The five women slowly, and often reluctantly, start filling journals, sliding pages into typewriters, and sharing their work. In the process, they explore the changing world around them: the Vietnam War, the race to the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they believe about themselves. At the same time, the friends carry one another through more personal changes–ones brought about by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. With one another’s support and encouragement, the Wednesday Sisters begin to embrace who they are and what they hope to become, welcoming readers to experience, along with them, the power of dreaming big.

About the Author

Meg Waite Clayton is the author of The Language of Light, a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Runner’s World, Writer’s Digest, and literary magazines. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their two sons.

Product Details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345502833
ISBN-13: 978-0345502834