'The Ten-Year Nap': Stay-at-Home Mama Drama

Meg Wolitzer's new novel explores the ups and downs of four smart women who chose the "mommy track." Deborah Copaken Kogan hide caption

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Deborah Copaken Kogan

Meg Wolitzer's new novel, The Ten-Year Nap, is the story of a group of women who choose full-time motherhood over promising professional careers — and then find themselves questioning that decision a decade later.

Wolitzer's other books include The Position and The Wife, which was a New York Times Notable Book.

The Ten-Year Nap

By Meg Wolitzer

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