Three Women

Marge Piercy

Set in the US, the book's three women are grandmother, mother (lawyer) and daughter (mid-20s, promiscuous, drug problem), with the mother as central character - there's another daughter, too, who's training to be a rabbi. Fairly early in the book the grandmother has a stroke and as they're not well off the mother has to care for her. The daughter comes home and so all the women are living in the same house. It's set quite recently and there are chapters from the point of view of each of the three women. Such men as feature in the book (and there are very few, men are mostly absent) are weak and sources only of trouble. By contrast the women are very real.

Gill thought the book compulsive reading, though she didn't know why.
Gill 1/12/02

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