I thoroughly enjoyed both the Ten-Year Nap and The Wife. Wolitzer gives a real-world and empathetic view of the various roles women fill today as well as the relationships involved. I never hesitate to recommend her and I have yet to receive negative feedback.

This really did avoid so many of the cliches I was wary of. The general kindness of the book and tolerance toward the characters, mixed with a strong streak of irreverence, was pleasing all the way through.

I love Wolitzer's writing. This is so different from The Wife, but both are sharply observant and witty.

There are so many incidents in this book that resonate, I know a young father, brilliant academically, who brought his young daughter to see me, he'd put her shoes on the wrong feet, Wolitzer mentions fathers who bring their kids out with one sock on.

I really thought this was going to be all about the Mommy Wars, and I am so tired of the Mommy Wars--I was in no mood for another I Don't Know How She Does It. But this was actually much more about female friendship than about motherhood, and it resonated much more than I expected. (And I so get the title. My daughter's about to turn ten, and I feel like I've taken a ten-year nap, and I've been working the whole time. Small children are just black holes for a mother's energy and time.)

I loved The Wife. This should be a nice change of pace from The Road.

SO readable. I keep waiting to get annoyed at the upper-middle-class-mommy-in-New-York framing, and I'm sure I will at some point, but right now that's overshadowed by how right she gets the important motherhood stuff.

I really liked this one, so ignore the fact that it took me a month to finish it off.

I shouldn't be liking this at all, since it should be a mass of postpartum, upper middle class, private school New York cliches. But jeez, can Worlitzer write.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book which transcended its topic from p. 1.

So-called Mommy Lit does not appeal to me and I find the whole working vs non-working thing so loaded, I truly try not to go there. But Wolitzer is so witty and shows so much compassion for her characters, I was won over from the beginning. This was so much more than an empty polemic - it really explores - in a humorous and thoughtful way - the choices we make and the ones that are made for us. She is also an expert at delineating the emotions of motherhood - from the passionate to the ambivilent. I spent a lot of time reading and nodding, thinking 'That is exactly how I feel'.

There are a few misteps, but overall, a funny wonderful novel.

I am new to Wolitzer and slightly suspicious of what I imagined her books were like but I am enjoying this tale of mothers contemplating their return to the work force, even though it makes me feel a little squidgey in my tummy.

Some of her wit, sly as it is, hits a little close to the bone.