A review by philippakmoore
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt

3.0

I really wanted to like this. It only just crossed the "ok" border, and my opinion and enjoyment of it was undoubtedly helped by reading Caitlin Moran's "How to be a Woman" at the same time, as I enjoyed the different paradigms of femininity in both books. The prose in TSWM is elegant, as always, but I found the characters not fleshed out enough to really get engaged with the story.