"Conveniently" Engrossing......
While I found this novel somewhat slow reading at first, I was thoroughly absorbed and loved learning about the ways in which women were treated in the 1880s, especially in New York "high society." It is such a testament to how far we have come from being "inconvenient."
"The Inconvenient Wife" has so much to offer any reader....part Frankenstein, part court battle, part mystery, part historical fiction, part coming-of-age story, and part scientific discovery, this novel certainly has it all!
It reminded me so much of Chopin's "The Awakening" from the themes of women as property, isolation vs. solitude, the need of a person to be taken seriously, the "call to art" as providing escape and freedom, sociatal pressures, sexual and artistic desire in women, and freedom from male control. I highly recommend reading the two together! I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to all readers, especially women!
