Within this novel, there’s almost an entire treatise on the decorating habits of the wealthy — and not so wealthy. In fact, the stories are similar: Both use the children’s school as a stage, with the parents as the stars. The boldest thing about “Mrs.” — as with “Big Little Lies” — is that it focuses on the depths of women’s experiences as wives and mothers. “Mrs.” could easily have been a glossy, rushed novel about bitchy, bored housewives nursing social resentment. Plenty of those have been published, passing from memory as quickly as the pages fly under your fingers.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 21:33 UTC