In ‘Crush,' monogamy is put to the test
Early in Ada Calhoun's debut novel, 'Crush,' the narrator asks, 'Why were so many tales about women's sexuality so depressing?'
Even if you can't still taste the arsenic on Madame Bovary's lips, you know she's right.
Women may — for the moment — be allowed to vote, own property and wear pants, but how they pursue and experience erotic pleasure remains more closely supervised than the purification of uranium. Of course, they're free to step outside the confines of monogamy whenever they want, so long as they keep walking toward the waves.
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