“Lots of sharp insights…perfect comic timing. “A novel that tingles with playfulness and wicked observation.” INDEPENDENT As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for womens lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light.Īs she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school.

Her novel for younger readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, was published in 2011.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. Her short story 'Tea at the House' was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories collection. Her following books include Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Uncoupling (2011), and The Interestings (2013). She wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, while still an undergraduate it was published in 1982.

Wolitzer studied creative writing at Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Uncoupling written by Meg Wolitzer which was published in January 1, 2011.

Wolitzer was born in Brooklyn and raised in Syosset, New York, the daughter of novelist Hilma Wolitzer (née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer. Brief Summary of Book: The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion.