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As the author of some well-received earlier novels, The Gardens of Kyoto and the National Book Award-finalist Our Kind, it wasn't exactly as though Kate Walbert was an unknown when her most recent novel, A Short History of Women (Scribner, newly in paper), was first published a year ago. Yet it was one of those books whose public life started slowly and then built, and built as readers kept word-of-mouth going. Reviews and accolades (it was one of the New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2009" ) were also a part of its story, though the real story is A Short History of Women itself, a novel that spans five generations of women from the end of the 19th century to the beginnings of the 21st. "Ambitious and impressive ... Reminiscent of a host of innovative writers from Virginia Woolf to Muriel Spark to Pat Barker ... A witty and assured testament to the women's movement and women writers, obscure and renowned." - Valerie Sayers, Washington Post. "A complex, exquisitely rendered consideration of what used to be called 'The Woman Question' ... Intricately structured, vividly researched ... [A] resonant portrait of a legacy of struggle for self-fulfillment." - Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle.
