![]() ![]() ![]() Vicarious pleasure can be derived from reading Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys (1995), but over the years I kept wondering: Who and where are the wonder girls? Where are American campus and academic novels about indocile, out-of-control women who are writers based in academia, unlucky in life and love yet always landing on both feet, eccentric and wildly charming? There is a tendency to cast as protagonists unhappy women, tormented victims rather than fierce and empowered individuals with agency, resilience, and a sense of humor, so it seems that a female counterpart of Grady Tripp, a happy-go-lucky writer protagonist who gets away with everything, is missing in American literature. ![]()
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