Mrs. Everything - Jennifer Weiner

“Mrs. Everything” by Jennifer Weiner follows the lives of 2 sisters from the 1950's onward. The author has said that this is her take on “Little Women”, which seems true enough as it highlights in some instances how far women have come and at what cost, while also showing how little has changed for women by and large. The book touches on what it is to be a woman in all the roles that women find themselves, including those they find themselves thrust into and those that the fall into by circumstance or choice. The characters are chronicaled as they struggle, with some limited success to figure out who they are as people independent of those roles. This would make an excellent book club read as it covered so many topics that would make for good discussion: Racism, sexism, sexual orientation, rape, drugs, motherhood, the freelove era, the #metoo movement, and more. While there were a lot of plusses for the book, I found the material to be a little bit too much. There were too many issues and at times the pacing seemed a little bit too slow. A good read, but not a great read for me. Thank you to NetGalley for the eArc in exchange for my honest opinion.