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"Long before Betty Friedan's bombshell, The Feminine Mystique, in 1965, Hurston wrote this tale, in 1937, of a black woman and how the three men in her life affected her---two by abusing her, and the third, by loving her. It should be read by all American girls and women."

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"This is THE "woman's World War II novel", weaving together the wartime experiences of a half-dozen women in a variety of capacities, including aircraft pilot, OSS staffer, war correspondent, etc."