“Wifey” (post 4) by Judy Blume: From Author’s Introduction to this, her first novel for adults
“I grew up in the Fifties [1950’s], with a mother whose expectations for me didn’t go beyond wanting me to be a good girl. She urged me to get a college degree in education in case, God forbid, I ever had to go to work…
“But by the mid seventies all the rules had changed. I was thirty-seven at the time…And so, in 1975 I left my marriage and set off with my children to find out what I’d missed.
“No, I’m not Sandy, although many of the details of her life come from mine…And I was never married to Norman but I knew plenty of guys like him…
“When I look at the book today, I can’t believe how fearless I was in the writing…Maybe I didn’t know enough then to be worried. Maybe I really didn’t care what anyone thought. I just remember this burning inside; this need to get Sandy’s story on paper. I was, after all, raised to be Sandy. I still identify with her…”
1. Judy Blume. Wifey. New York, Berkley Books, 1978/2005.
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