![]() ![]() People will slut-shame a fictional character. Most of the people said they were looking forward to reading the book, but a few of them said things like, “Boy, Aviva sounds like a dumb girl.” My point is, people can’t even bear a fictional “fallen” woman. The description included the fact that Aviva, a 20-year-old, has an affair with an older, married man. I try to avoid being online too much, but I put up a plot description of Young Jane Young on social media. What kind of research did you do to explore the phenomenon of viral slut-shaming? Did you correspond with Monica Lewinsky or other victims of similar hate crusades? Slut-shaming imposes standards of conduct on women that it does not impose on men. ![]() One of the things I concluded was that slut-shaming imposes standards of morality on women that tend to eliminate them from running for office. So on some level, slutshaming as a topic was a byproduct of trying to honestly answer this first question. I wrote Young Jane Young because I wanted to explore the reason women do not seek or achieve higher political office in the same numbers that men do. As a nation, we are not used to voting for women for anything. When I think about these facts, I don’t think it’s that astounding that we did not elect the first female president last November. My grandmother was born into a country where she could not vote. The state where I live, California, and the state where I was born, New York, have never had a female governor. Thank you! Women are 51% of the population, and yet we have just under 20% of the seats in Congress. Young Jane Young is a feminist, political novel - and a well-argued rebuttal to slut-shaming. ![]() After all, you'll need something good to read when Harvey hits us this weekend. Read her thoughtful answers below, then swing by the store or place an online order for your own copy of Young Jane Young. Zevin earlier this month for a short Q&A about her new book. This will be her fourth stop over the last ten years, and we're utterly delighted to be the only bookstore to host Ms. Her new book, Young Jane Young, is whip-smart and seriously funny. It's also the perfect book club choice – much to consider lies within these pages. She wrote The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, a runaway best-seller and Blue Willow staff favorite, plus a host of other well-loved novels for teens and adults. ![]()
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