THE WRONG KIND of WOMAN by Sarah McCraw Crow - Review & Giveaway

 

Sarah McCraw Crow examines family, marriage, love and grief in the 70's in her debut novel, THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN (MIRA). If you were around then, it's an interesting walk down memory lane, particularly for women. If you weren't, you'll learn something, especially how hard if was for women at home and at work, if they were even allowed to work.

It's late 1970 when Virginia Desmarais' professor husband drops dead. They live on the grounds of a very isolated private New Hampshire college. Virginia has always shared her husband's prejudice against the so-called "gang of four" - a group of women labeled "radical elements" for trying to bring the women's movement to the college. 

THE WRONG KIND of WOMAN explores the self within a marriage, sexism in the workplace and the pros and cons of activism versus revolution. It's a study of women's friendships and finding the strength to forge ahead new paths while the world is changing.

Sarah McCraw Crow is a longtime magazine writer, editor, and book reviewer, and her articles, essays, and reviews have run in BookPage, The Christian Science Monitor, Prime Number, Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Parenting, American Baby, Baby Talk, and Working Mother, among others. Her short fiction has won prizes from So to Speak and Good Housekeeping, and her stories have been honored as contest finalists by Press 53, New Letters, Yemasee, and Stanford Alumni Magazine.

As a child, Sarah lived in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas as her dad finished his medical training and served in the military, but she did most of her growing up in Virginia. For the past twenty years, she has called New Hampshire home. She lives with her husband and three almost-grown children on an old farm, where she gardens in the summer and snowshoes in the winter, if there’s snow. And although she’s a transplanted Southerner, she has come to realize that temperamentally, she’s a northern New Englander.

She is a graduate of Dartmouth College (AB, history), Stanford University (MA, journalism), and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing), and she’s a member of Grub Street, Boston, and the National Book Critics Circle.

Thanks to GetRedPR we have one copy to giveaway. Just tell us what you think is the "right" kind of woman. We'll announce a winner soon. Good luck.

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