Halfway through A Special Place for Women, the book you think you’re reading turns into something else entirely.
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Berkley
9781984806260
Berkley
9781984806260
Halfway through A Special Place for Women, the book you think you’re reading turns into something else entirely.
Laura Hankin’s A Special Place for Women has a ripped-from-the-headlines hook: It’s heavily based on the controversial, real-life, women-only coworking space the Wing and related critiques of “girl boss” feminism, a phrase that diminishes women’s authority while masquerading as empowerment.
Narrator Jillian Beckley is an unemployed journalist from an unsexy part of Brooklyn who recently…
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