1 July 2019
For underneath the froth, these were books written by women who not only understood the ways in which women's lives were changing but who were eager to capture those changes on the page. Women such as Rona Jaffe, celebrated for her classic "girls in the city" novel The Best of Everything (1958), who would go on to write 1979's Class Reunion, which followed four women from their time at Radcliffe College through bad marriages and by-and-large better careers to their college reunion 20 years later. And Lisa Alther, whose Kinflicks, published in 1976, told the riotous coming-of-age of Ginny Babcock, teen renegade turned sorority sister, lesbian, suburban mother and more.
