The odd woman / Gail Godwin

G. Godwin

Jane is a thirty-two-year-old professor in Englisch literatuur at a Midwestern university. She is stuck in a long-term but unproductive affair with a married man. She is also facing middle age, loneliness and a growing feeling of irrelevance and she is aware of her 'ever present problem of her unclear, undefined, unresolved self'. The death of her grandmother brings her home for the funeral and confronts her with a few truths that helps to make the decisions she needs to make. [Contains latent or repressed lesbianism].