num_pages: 464
description: Professor Jane Clifford is in her early thirties, smart, and attractive. A popular teacher at a midwestern college, she appears to be going somewhere. But Jane knows better. After a lifetime habit of looking to books for the answers to life's mysteries, she seems to be finding only more questions.Then her beloved grandmother suddenly dies, and Jane returns home for the funeral, where she is faced with the little dramas and fictions of both the past she has lived and the past she has only been told about. In the midst of it all, she is considering breaking off a long-term, long-distance affair, but like the family stories she tries to make sense of, she cannot seem to find a reason to claim a life of her own.
language: English
title: The Odd Woman
titlecomplete: The Odd Woman
genres: Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 410
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books