Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.
In 1975 Paul and Roz Mellow wrote a bestselling Joy of Sex–type book that mortified their four school-aged children and ultimately changed the shape of the family forever. Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex—all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents.
Insightful, panoramic, and compulsively readable, The Position is an American original.
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“Sub-mysteries drive us onward…but what sets and keeps you reading
is not the high concept about the sex book but the beautifully
developed deeper story of what parents owe children, what kind of
intimacy is desirable, and how adult offspring cope with histories of
unmet needs…It is clear that forgiveness, for this or
possibly any family, is the novel’s real subject.”
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Guardian (London)