One Woman Takes A Wayward Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel
Dana Spiotta s new novel,
Wayward, is about a 53-year-old woman named Samantha Sam Raymond, who s going through menopause and becomes a little unhinged. She leaves her husband and her teenage daughter in the suburbs of Syracuse and impulsively moves into a dilapidated Arts and Crafts-style bungalow in a crumbling downtown neighborhood of that city.
If this premise sounds melodramatic, that s not the kind of writer Spiotta is. As a long-time fan, I went back and looked at the reviews I ve written of Spiotta s earlier work: In every review, I ve used the word smart. Spiotta is one of the most alert, ambitious, nuanced, and, yes, smartest of our contemporary novelists.
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