{"product_id":"9781558615205","title":"In the Name of Friendship: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarilyn French’s seven million copy bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Women’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e crystallized the issues that ignited the women’s movement. Now the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women’s lives. \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e dares to investigate how the women’s movement changed the lives of those it touched and what hurdles it left to cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages. The novel weaves together a series of family crises with the friendships that help the four women refashion their lives. Maddy, the seventy-six-year-old real estate agent and matriarch of the group, struggles with the gradual death of her angry and rebellious Vietnam-marked son; fifty-year-old Alicia fights to reconnect her gay son with her newly retired husband; seventy-year-old musician Emily strives to bridge the gap with her estranged niece right at the moment her composition career starts to finally bloom; and Jenny, the thirty-year-old painter and baby of the group, questions the life she has created with her successful painter husband and tries to decide if she wants more from life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this unusual group of multi-generational ladies, French tells a truly rare tale about four women who accidentally come into each other’s lives and in the process form an enduring friendship. It is a story of supporting one another, of looking at the grim conflicts created by cultural expectations of women, and realizing you are not alone—truly a tale of continuing hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press at CUNY, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054681407728,"sku":"9781558615205","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781558615205_p0.jpg?v=1763757518","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558615205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}