Why read The Home Maker?

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1 author picked The Home Maker as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Larry Zuckerman

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Canfield may have been the first to write a novel in which wife and husband swap roles as parental caregiver and breadwinner—in 1924, no less, well before modern feminism.

As a former full-time father, I admire the premise and how she draws it out, not least because she depicts with perfect pitch the social pressures her characters face.

The storytelling may seem dated in spots, but her characters’ lives ring true, and the way they come to recognize that their individual talents run contrary to societal rules—and what they do about that—reminds me of my own experience.

From Larry's list on men and women breaking unwritten rules.