The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
This is a near perfect read that will keep you up all night turning the pages for “just one more chapter!” A brilliant companion piece to my all-time favorite “The Stepford Wives,” this book really explores just what it would take to have equity within mixed-gender marriages. While Levin terrified us with the idea that most cis-hetero men would trade in their wives for a sex-bot that also does floors, Baker terrifies us with the extreme measures that would be required to make those same men do their fair share of the mental and physical labor in a household.
The only critique I have of the novel is that I could have lived without Nora having a tragic motherhood backstory. The story would have sold just as powerfully, maybe even more so, without the “excuse” for her husband’s resentment.
All together though, a five-star read to wrap up the summer.
Purchase at: Barnes & Noble
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