While I hope that in the sequel the characters devote their lives to some kind of fight for social justice, this story itself, told by a woman, about women, is refreshing.
How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti
If How Should a Person Be? was less ambitious, it might be easier for older people (and men, perhaps) to take seriously.
Bad personality, bad prose, and sexism aside, the narrator’s anxieties about how to novelize history are legitimate.