Elizabeth L. Silver's new novel, 'The Majority,' features an 83-year-old Supreme Court justice (RBG, obviously) contemplating her groundbreaking life.
in the 1950s. The tension between her membership in those two groups will determine much of her life’s progress. Sylvia — Sylvie to her nearest and dearest — has a strong liberal, feminist bent, which she slowly realizes in this stealthily devastating story puts her at odds with much of her country and even her family.
Both before and after Aviva’s birth, Sylvie also struggles with the way society pits the one against the many. During the early case that leads to the contempt charge, she is an intern in the Boston Public Defender Office. A woman named Amy McCartney refuses to testify against her husband, who raped and beat her nearly to death. Sylvie’s feminist indignation feeds her silence in court, enraging the judge in that case.
For Sylvie, this is a good thing, because there are decisions in her life she’d like to reverse. One, all too common, involves a rift with her daughter. When it threatens to become irreconcilable, Mariana steps in, as she did during Aviva’s infancy, to give the younger woman space and time for healing — a process Sylvie never truly appreciated.
Brasil Últimas Notícias, Brasil Manchetes
Similar News:Você também pode ler notícias semelhantes a esta que coletamos de outras fontes de notícias.
'Notorious RBG' and a liberal Supreme Court disasterByron York in dailyherald: Liberals complaining about the direction of the Supreme Court have one of their own to blame - 'Notorious RBG'.
Consulte Mais informação »
Putting the Supreme in the Supreme Court | ShenemanAll rise! It's mandatory.
Consulte Mais informação »
Democrats Push For Court-Packing After Controversial Supreme Court Rulings: Why The Proposal Is Likely DoomedProgressives amplified their calls to expand the Supreme Court in hopes of appointing more liberal justices to balance the scales of power after the conservative-majority court delivered several victories to Republicans last week.
Consulte Mais informação »
The Supreme Court Is Waging War on Black Women and GirlsCommentary: The Supreme Court is an engine of repression whose decisions on affirmative action, student debt relief, and abortion rights amount to a war on Black women and girls, writes Marley Dias
Consulte Mais informação »
Opinion | The Supreme Court Declares IndependenceFrom WSJopinion: We are in the throes of a full-scale American cultural counterrevolution enforced by a string of impeccable decisions from a Supreme Court intent on reviving the spirit of 1776, writes gerardtbaker
Consulte Mais informação »