Katie Roiphe, culture writer and writer of The Morning After, shares a timely mixture of memoir, feminist analysis, and exploration in famous woman authors’ lives, inside a bold, essential discussion of how solid women experience their power.

Told in some notebook computer entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal encounters with divorce, solitary motherhood, and human relationships with insights in to the lives and loves of famous authors such as for example Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful ladies have subjugated their personal power again and again, and she probes brilliantly at the challenging, uncomfortable query of why.

In these informal musings and notes, Roiphe delves into treacherous, largely untalked about, contradictions of contemporary womanhood, going where few writers dare. THE ENERGY Notebooks can be Roiphe’s most essential, believed provoking, and psychologically intimate work yet.