The Wrong Kind of Woman

Thank you Get Red PR and HTP Books for this gifted copy.

Set in the 70s, The Wrong Kind of Woman is a slow burn character driven story told from three different POV and the changes and hopes they have in their own lives. Crow has also woven in the themes of belonging, self-discovery, community, and reckoning in this moving debut.

Sadly this book wasn’t for me. It was a way to slow and plotless story that just meandered around, and I just was never able to get into the story or connect with the characters.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire men’s college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husband’s prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the faculty—dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts—she now finds herself depending on them, even joining their work to bring the women’s movement to Clarendon College.

Soon, though, reports of violent protests across the country reach this sleepy New England town, stirring tensions between the fraternal establishment of Clarendon and those calling for change. As authorities attempt to tamp down “radical elements,” Virginia must decide whether she’s willing to put herself and her family at risk for a cause that had never felt like her own.

Told through alternating perspectives, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story about finding the strength to forge new paths, beautifully woven against the rapid changes of the early ’70s.

💬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝?