![]() ![]() It concerns 40ish Evangeline Knapp who performs her housewifely duties intensely and aggressively. I read slightly more than a third of this novel, originally published in 1924. This book powerfully examines society's expectations for men and women and what happens when those expectations just do not fit. But what will happen if all goes back to "normal"? Though all feel sorry for them, they end up flourishing in these circumstances. Then all is flipped on its head when an accident leads to a role reversal, Eva going out to work and Lester staying home to mind the kids. ![]() ![]() Everyone in the family has healthy problems and their youngest child, Stephen, is acknowledged by all their acquaintances as a terror, despite Eva's excellent mothering. Eva, the mother, runs a beautifully functioning household on her husband's meager salary, but is constantly slaving away and feeling stifled by her housework and her needy children. Lester, the father, is hopeless at getting along at work, constantly making errors and not progressing at all. The Knapps are a family of five struggling to get by. ![]() I loved this 1920s book that flips the typical man/woman roles on its head. ![]()
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