The Book of V by Anna Solomon is about three women in three centuries. Esther becomes the queen of Persia when the king's first wife, Vashti, refuses his request to appear before his drunken friends wearing only her crown. Vivian, in the 1960's, is a senator's wife. At a fund-raising party at their home her husband asks her to take off her clothes so his male supporters can look at her. She refuses. The third woman is Lilly who lives in current times trying to balance her life as a wife, a mother of two young girls, and a dutiful daughter to her mother. The story of Esther and Vashti is from the Bible. Lillian is trying to explain the story to her girls in a way that makes sense to them. This entertaining story goes back and forth between the centuries ever explaining the expectation of and restraints upon the women.
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