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...Daria endures Ross's increasing verbal abuse and fiendish behavior long past the moment when the reader wants to hurl the book at the wall, she gradually becomes aware that in their 22 years of marriage, she has never known what exactly he does, besides lawyering. Turns out he's involved in all sorts of sordid and shady dealings--with two of her brothers involved, no less...
Piercy's few attempts to elicit any sympathy for this adulterous husband seem half-hearted at best, and after a torrent of abuse Ross finally walks out, asks Daria to sign papers that would leave her almost no claim to their joint property, and demands an immediate divorce. And then begins Daria's long search for the class that will help her understand her husband, his business dealings, and the choices that she now faces...
...Piercy chosen to focus her attention on the psychology, the human aspect of the situation, she might have produced a very powerful novel. There are the seeds of several very real and dramatic relationships, particularly between Daria and her mother, and between Daria and her daughters. Perhaps the truest line in the novel is the first...
Like many women, Daria both loved her mother and prayed not to become like...
Piercy could probe much more deeply into Daria's dual struggle not to take the same verbal and psychological abuse that her mother took from her crude, hulking, selfish father and to still honor her mother. But after introducing Daria's quandary, Piercy abandons this conflict in favor of the cheap thrills of the arson story...