Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer

"That Naslund is unstintingly reasonable, empathetic and kind should not, however, blind one to the fact that she is, in the most nonaggressive way, rewriting American history, revising American literature and critiquing traditional masculinity....The book insists on happiness, sometimes to the exclusion of even the most generous reading of history. But why not? Men have got rich from their big harpoons and mythic beasts and improbable heroics. Don't women deserve their own fantastic voyages?"Naslund, Sena Jeter is the author of 'Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer', published 1999 under ISBN 9780688171872 and ISBN 0688171877.