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"There are three forms of strike I'd recommend: a housework strike, a labor strike, and a sex strike. I can't wait for the first two." Lucy Ellmann's essay collection is on the way. The essays explore a variety of topics and key figures including feminism, environmental catastrophe, labour strikes, sex strikes, Little House On The Prairie, Donald Trump, Alfred Hitchcock and Virginia Woolf.
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"Attentively negotiating a bleak world, the sentences remain joyous constructions ..."
"As a polemic against the patriarchy, Ellmann's collection has coherence, but individually, the essays veer from the incisive to outdated ..."
"As much of the world leaves the pandemic behind...our nostalgia for the past may well be tempered by the recognition of what our world was actually like before."
"In this offbeat essay collection, novelist Ellmann...addresses complex systemic ills alongside petty grievances in an acerbic and hilarious litany of complaints ..."
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