The Position

From the bestselling author of The Wife - Meg Wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, with its “dead-on observations about sex, marriage, and the family ties that strangle and bind” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). 

"Sly and delicious... Her richest and most substantial [novel yet]."  -  The Washington Post

Crackling with intelligence and humour, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution - and through the thirty-year hangover that followed. In 1975, Paul and Roz Mellow write a bestselling Joy of Sex-type book that mortifies their four school-aged children and ultimately changes the shape of the family forever. 

Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex - all shadowed by the indelible spectre of their highly sexualized parents. 

"She's great on the surprises of love, and admirably sympathizes with our misguided blame games, but along the way she squelches her singular harshness and humour. Wolitzer knows the best comedy is mean, and when she does let herself go, she can be very funny."  -  The New York Times

Insightful, panoramic, and compulsively readable, The Position is an American original.