Binding: Paperback
Description: A GOOD Morning Americ a BOOK CLUB PICK A Belletrist BOOK CLUB PICK For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies a bold kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex power and desire finally converge in the present day. Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer maybe? Or she was going to be before she had children. Now in her rented Brooklyn apartment she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate - era Washington D. C. But one night he demands a humiliating favor and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life along with the lives of others. Esther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia where she and her uncle's tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King in the hopes that she will save them all. In Anna Solomon's The Book of V. these three characters riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide illuminating how women's lives have and have not changed over thousands of years.
Title: The Book Of V. A Novel
Author(s): Solomon Anna
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798442
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction