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Moreover, not everyone will empathize with or even recognize the feelings of vulnerability to and hatred for men which many of the women in the book express. To one not altogether convinced, Prager's bitterness overwhelms her rather thin veneer of satire and wit, leaving a sour and depressing taste in the mouth...
Which doesn't mean that these five stories aren't refreshing, clever, insightful and even hilarious at times. One of Prager's most appealing talents is her ability to write in any century or country, no matter how exotic or removed, as long as there are women around she feels at home...
...perusal on the complete catalogue of feminine insecurities Prager first takes the reader to 13th-century China, to the palace of the prefect Lord Guo Guo whose daughter Pleasure Mouse is about to have her feet bound. Pleasure Mouse is a lively six-year-old who, while romping through places like the Stream of No Regrets and the Bridge of Piquapi Memory, discovers the terrible truth about her impending rite of passage. Of course familiar pressures override her objections to a life of crippled submission: in the end she must choose between such a life and a kind of mystical...
...Prager abandons herself wholeheartedly to this tone in the book's second story. "The Alumnae Bulletin." If "A Visit From the Footbinder" depicts a woman on the verge of accepting sex roles, this story shows women rejecting them. Here, in the living room of Edda Millicent Mallory (Brearley, class of '65), we meet Bunny Warburton and Faye O'Jones as the three come together to celebrate their 10th high school reunion. In what has to be one of the most bizarre and yet completely believable rituals ever described in women's literature, the three chums ingest large quantities of marijuana...
...PRAGER IS BY NO MEANS a stylist, but she knows how to tell a story. Her characters are so outrageous, their experiences so reminiscent all has something to do with the value of female consciousness raising, or the feminine tendency towards self-destruction. It also might have a lot to do with having fun at the expense of the Brearley School, an ancient and awesome institution on the upper East Side dedicated to the intellectualization of genteel but swinging young ladies. And somewhere in there Prager takes a lot of free-falling pot shots at novelist Jerzy Kosinski, possibly because...