RaveThe Washington Post\"If something positive can come from our current political climate — what Wolitzer calls \'the big terribleness\' — it is almost certainly this ambitious new novel ... Wolitzer understands — seemingly on a cellular level — the puzzled, needy heart that beats within any teenager ... Wolitzer is also startlingly perceptive about young adulthood, or whatever that murky, unmoored time in your mid-20s is called ... The Female Persuasion may fall short of perfection, but it’s still plenty strong enough to remind us that we can change the world, one woman at a time, even in the big terribleness.\
