What do You think about In Her Day (1988)?
RMB's thoughts on the women's movement (etc) would probably have made a better essay than they did a novel. The characters seem puppeteered to parrot her thoughts, and - as a result - end up sounding unrealistic. Plus, the book's overall love for the rational (which Brown rejects, at least partially, in the latter-day introduction) results in a constant stream of up-front information and character thought processes, with very little time given to feelings, or to showing without telling. Less analysis, por favor... at least in fiction.
—Mary
