![]() Roiphe runs with a fairly posh crowd), but there are also quite a few frank admissions of loneliness, neediness and fragility. There is glamour in these stories, and plenty of wine and champagne (Ms. Here she shows the tender underbelly of her thoughts about sex, power and womanhood, and reveals her doubts, shifts and contradictions. Roiphe, who typically writes and picks fights with an unapologetic swagger. ![]() ![]() This, clearly, is a different sort of book for Ms. About her affair with the rabbi, for example, she is more candid about its 'not okayness.' She recognizes that her efforts to 'control and tame' this narrative by making it a tale of empowerment were not exactly lies, per se, but wishes. Roiphe takes another tack in telling her own stories, and the effect is quietly revelatory. Roiphe’s work will be unsurprised by her desire to wrest a story of strength from an experience that others might describe with words like 'trauma' or 'victim'. ![]()
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