'His Favorites' Is An Artful Argument For #MeToo — And More
Kate Walbert's new novel follows a young woman who goes to a posh boarding school after tragedy upends her life — only to find she's no safer there than she was at home.
Kate Walbert's most powerful novel yet is a case study in the perversities of power imbalances. This slim but by no means slight novel continues Walbert's explorations of how society's sexual biases and constraints have hampered women, a theme that has driven all six of her books, including A Short(2009) and her most recent, (2015). But with a timeliness so acute it feels ripped-from-the-headlines, amps up the outrage and packs a punch far greater than its weight class.
