The Position

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“Painfully funny and brilliantly executed…Utterly original.”

“Hilariously moving, sharply written…The Position will resonate with anyone who has ever walked in on their parents doing the deed—and for all of us who have had to accept that our mothers and fathers are normal people with healthy sex drives.”

“Wolitzer’s comic timing never wavers, and she has an astute grasp of the way one generation’s liberation inspires the next generation’s pity.”

“Funny, wise, and full of the richness and sadness of family life…hilarious and humane.”

“Sly and delicious…Her richest and most substantial [novel yet]."

“You know families are this funny, you know they are this weird. But never has this realization been such a welcome and entertaining relief.”

“Sub-mysteries drive us onward…but what sets and keeps you reading is not the high concept about the sex book but the beautifully developed deeper story of what parents owe children, what kind of intimacy is desirable, and how adult offspring cope with histories of unmet needs…It is clear that forgiveness, for this or possibly any family, is the novel’s real subject.”

“Wolitzer nevertheless bestows her trademark warmth and light touch on this tale of social and domestic change.”

“Wolitzer keeps this study of one family’s three-decade journey along the sexual continuum churning along with her droll, often poignant tale.”

“Wolitzer…is a smart, funny, and entertaining novelist in the Anne Tyler school who spikes her kinetic sagas with shrewd observations about the peculiarities of human nature and society…Wolitzer is a witty, bold, and upbeat satirist, and this is one scintillating, wily, and wise novel.”

“Slyly comic…[and] immensely readable.”

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