Shelving: Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

The Interestings  is everything I wanted Freedom and The Marriage Plot to be. Don't get me wrong, I loved those books, but Franzen and Eugenides  both fail at creating female characters that don't exist simply to orbit around male ones. One thing I really like about The Interestings is that the relationships between women are often flawed and imperfect. I'm halfway through, so I've yet to tell whether it passes the Bechdel Test (there are a lot of conversations about me), but I don't think that's as important as having characters who are plausible, who make mistakes, and yes, who make mistakes when it comes to the men in their lives.