In late , 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, she now finds. THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN is an easy-to-digest tale of one woman’s march towards personal freedom. Set against the backdrop of the turbulent ’70s, the novel sweeps us up into a frenzy that we can recognize women are still fighting a good fight, and Virginia and her contemporaries carve out new paths in small places, changes that set a. · The Wrong Kind of Woman: A Review. February 6, When I first pulled my advanced reader copy of Sarah McCraw Crow’s most recent (and, as I would come to learn, first) novel from the tattered cardboard bin in the corner of the musty breakroom of the building in which I am currently employed, I admit, I did not expect much from the work.
Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN (MIRA Books/HarperCollins). Sarah McCraw Crow grew up in Virginia but has lived most of her adult life in New Hampshire. She's a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. In her entrancing debut, McCraw Crow traces the impact of second-wave feminism and the antiwar movement in the early s on a New Hampshire college campus. After Virginia Desmarais's husband. "The Wrong Kind of Woman is the right kind of book. A beautifully written exploration of loss, the novel captures its characters at the cusp of personal and social change. Sarah McCraw Crow deftly navigates the campus and national politics of the '70s in a way that remains timely and pressing today. A powerful, thought-provoking debut.".
Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN (MIRA Books/HarperCollins). Sarah McCraw Crow grew up in Virginia but has lived most of her adult life in New Hampshire. She's a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of The Wrong Kind of Woman. When it comes to fiction writing (and reading), Sarah is obsessed with women's lives and the drama of family life. She also loves the Seventies. SARAH McCRAW CROW’s articles and short stories have run in many magazines and literary journals. She’s a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she lives on an old farm in New Hampshire with her family. The Wrong Kind of Woman is her first novel. Learn more.
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