![]() ![]() ![]() The satirical wisdom is utterly engaging. They free-associated to various good-sounding 'lang' words: ' lan-guid,' ' language,' even ' langoustines,' those tiny lobsters they both loved and had eaten by the bucket that summer. It was a neutral, appealing name: the single syllable seemed easygoing, much the way they imagine themselves. "They were casting off their old families, their old lives why not cast off their names, too? 'Lang' was decided upon in the middle of the night. In her description of the Langs, the happily married couple who both teach at Stellar Plains, she says "even their pop quizzes were humane." The Langs continued to delight, as Wolitzer revealed the two chose the last name Lang: ![]() Wolitzer manages to make the reader laugh without actually making fun of her characters. My thoughts: I was laughing out loud from the very first pages of this novel. In Stellar Plains, women mysteriously lose the desire to have sex with the men in their lives. ![]() In the play, the women of ancient Greece stop having sex to protest the ongoing civil war. The basics: At a seemingly normal high school in New Jersey, the new drama teacher picks Lysistrata as the high school play. The backstory: Meg Wolitzer's last novel, The Ten-Year Nap was a five-star read for me, and I was eager to read The Uncoupling since the moment I heard about it. ![]()
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