The female persuasion

2018 · Book · Meg Wolitzer, Laura Vidal Sanz

“Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wihelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture; and through that night the chapel was full of students, some of them boiling over with loudmouthed commentary, it seems astonishing but true that out of everyone there, Greer was the one to interest Faith.”

Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined by Meg Wolitzer, Laura Vidal Sanz