Alix Kates Shulman Book order

This author's novels delve into the complexities of human experience, from the challenges of youth to the introspection of later life. Through her memoirs, she probes the evolving drama of her generation of women, confronting the solitude, familial transitions, and late-life caregiving with profound honesty. Her writing is deeply informed by a lifelong commitment to civil rights and feminist activism, weaving these potent themes into her narrative explorations. Readers will find in her work a compelling examination of universal experiences, rich with emotional depth and intellectual insight.

2019
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
272 pages
10 hours of reading
3.5(115)Add rating
'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls' The New York TimesSasha Davis has everything a girl growing up in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed in life is to keep her skin clear and her intelligence hidden under her Prom Queen tiara. But when she drops out of college to marry, Sasha realises her life has become a fearful countdown to her thirtieth birthday - the year when her beauty will have faded entirely, and life as she knows it will end. As Sasha begins to rebel against her perfect, conservative upbringing, she finds herself experiencing an intellectual and sexual awakening that might be her only chance of outrunning the aging process. Alix Kates Shulman's landmark novel follows Sasha's coming of age through the sexual double standards, discrimination and harassment of the 1950s and 60s. Originally published in 1972, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen was the first great novel of second-wave feminism. Five decades later, it remains a funny, honest and heartbreakingly perceptive story of a young woman in a man's world.
2004
Drinking the Rain
256 pages
9 hours of reading
4.0(684)Add rating
A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning authorAt fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen , left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again.In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life.“A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman's honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives.” ― San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Drinking the Rain