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RipenessA story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers. Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her ballerina sister, Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home.

Lila feels right to be worried

Each of these spiky women—as well as the three other protagonists in this groundbreaking work—chafes against social expectations that equate work with worth and demand women squeeze into the confining and sometimes dehumanizing role of employee in a world built by and for men

stunned by a devastating loss

and discovery

In addition to the titular essay

These sentences lay a bloodless hand to a world flush with itself

suggesting that grumpy days

But this time it’s different

beer sticky

in the purest ecstasy

On design’s complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of Design

One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the year

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