The Position

Crackling with intelligence & humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.

In 1975, Paul & Roz Mellow write a bestselling Joy of Sex-type book that mortifies their four school-aged children & ultimately changes the shape of the family forever. Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children & their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex—all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents. Insightful, panoramic, & compulsively readable, The Position is an American original.

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Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, The Female Persuasion, This is Your Life, Surrender, Dorothy, Sleepwalking, & Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel, Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.

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