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Fireside Reads<br />
By MK Holladay<br />
While you’re cozying up by the fireplace this<br />
winter, expand your horizons with this list of<br />
books that offers perspectives from women<br />
across all walks of life. So put on some thick<br />
socks, make some hot cocoa, and step into<br />
someone else’s world.<br />
THE FEMALE PERSUASION<br />
BY MEG WOLITZER<br />
If you’ve never had the pleasure of escaping into<br />
one of Meg Wolitzer’s charming novels, this is<br />
a great place to start. Greer Kadetsky is a shy<br />
and naive freshman in college who is head over<br />
heels for her boyfriend Cory. She hears Faith<br />
Frank, an older woman who has been fighting<br />
for women’s rights for years, speak and her life<br />
is turned upside-down. Faith takes Greer under<br />
her wing and changes her life completely, for<br />
better and worse. This novel will awaken your<br />
ambition and lust for something new.<br />
IN PIECES<br />
BY SALLY FIELD<br />
The Sally Field you grew up knowing and<br />
loving, lead a much more complicated life than<br />
you might imagine. Field’s memoir touches<br />
on every piece of her life in a totally raw and<br />
emotional way. From her acting career, to<br />
her marriages, to the troubling sexual abuse<br />
she experienced as a child, Field explores<br />
her life candidly and works to figure herself<br />
out in her writing. Every woman has a story,<br />
and reading this will allow you to discover so<br />
much of yours.<br />
92 <strong>Alice</strong> Winter 2019
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