Women on the Move
Laney Katz Becker on
In the Family Way
It’s easy to forget that in 1965, American women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards. Divorce was still scandalous and abortion was an illegal, backroom procedure.
But in Laney Katz Becker’s capable hands, the reality of that dystopian world comes to life in the weekly canasta games of a group of suburban housewives struggling with the complexities of life before “women’s lib”: pregnancies, abortions, dreams, betrayals . . . and friendships that become the basis of political awakening and hope.
A former advertising copywriter, freelance journalist and literary agent, Laney Katz Becker is an award-winning author whose debut novel was Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend. She is also the author of the nonfiction anthology Three Times Chai, a collection of rabbis’ favorite stories.