âA glorious debut filled with characters grasping to find a place to belong in a world on the edge of change.â âCarol Rifka Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Tell the Wolves Iâm Home
âMcCraw Crow deftly navigates the campus and national politics of the â70s in a way that remains timely and pressing today. A powerful, thought-provoking debut.â âAmy Meyerson, Nationally bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays
A powerful exploration of what a woman can be when what she should be is no longer an option
In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire menâs college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husbandâs prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the facultyâdubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterpartsâshe now finds herself depending on them, even joining their work to bring the womenâs movement to Clarendon College.
Soon, though, reports of violent protests across the country reach this sleepy New England town, stirring tensions between the fraternal establishment of Clarendon and those calling for change. As authorities attempt to tamp down âradical elements,â Virginia must decide whether sheâs willing to put herself and her family at risk for a cause that had never felt like her own.
Told through alternating perspectives, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story about finding the strength to forge new paths, beautifully woven against the rapid changes of the early â70s.