RaveThe BafflerCaught between Victorian sexual mores and the libertinism of interwar Greenwich Village, Patricia brings a gimlet eye to the pervasive misogyny and sexual hypocrisies of her generation ... Private domestic spaces house some of the most disturbing events in Ex-Wife, which take on a quality of gothic horror, intensified rather than reduced by Patricia’s ostensibly dispassionate recounting ... In more ways than one, Ex-Wife records the essentially reactionary ideas lurking in the ostensibly liberated social milieu of Jazz Age Manhattan’s young white creative professionals.
