In Her Day (2014)
“In Her Day reflects the troubles inside the women’s movement at the beginning of the 1970s. It was a time of emotional hemophilia, and popular novels reflected that—here was lots of bleeding all over the page. I was determined in my crucial, second novel (the second novel is a killer) not to be a party to literary melodrama or political melodrama if I could help it. I was also determined to jump the Grand Canyon between first person narrative and third person. I landed safely on the other side despite a few frightening wobbles while airborne.
This is not to say that In Her Day is splendid and I’m a scribbling wonder. It is only to say that I had a difficult challenge before me—made all the more difficult by the wild success of Rubyfruit Jungle—and I managed to complete the task of writing a second novel that would not be Daughter of Rubyfruit Jungle and would teach me something. Whether or not the reader gets anything out of it is another matter entirely.
The cascade of years, fourtee...n, between the writing of this novel and today jolted me with surprises.MoreLess
This is not to say that In Her Day is splendid and I’m a scribbling wonder. It is only to say that I had a difficult challenge before me—made all the more difficult by the wild success of Rubyfruit Jungle—and I managed to complete the task of writing a second novel that would not be Daughter of Rubyfruit Jungle and would teach me something. Whether or not the reader gets anything out of it is another matter entirely.
The cascade of years, fourtee...n, between the writing of this novel and today jolted me with surprises.MoreLess
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