![]() ![]() ![]() Caroline is the quiet, dreamy, and artistic daughter of a financially struggling divorcee her filmmaker father decamped to Paris some years earlier, and she only sees him once a year. Maggie is the brilliant, outspoken Feminist (definitely capital-F) daughter of a Freudian psychoanalyst, with whom she has shared a warm, egalitarian relationship since her mother’s death 10 years earlier. Though both only children of single parents, their similarities end there. The Plot: The initial chapters switch back and forth between Maggie and Caroline, high school seniors at an elite “progressive” school on Manhattan’s upper west side. Progressive and problematic, outdated and forward-thinking, Love is One of the Choices is a bundle of contradictions that I dare you to put down once you start. Published three years after Judy Blume’s Forever, it deals with the same themes, but manages to pull off the feat of making Blume’s book look quaintly old-fashioned and romantic in its depiction of love and sex. If Norma Klein’s work pushes the envelope farther than her contemporaries when it comes to dealing with social issues, than Love is One of the Choices is the Norma Kleiniest. ![]() Maggie and Caroline: Two young women who must suddenly come to terms with their lives… ![]()
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