Emerging Housewives

Having just recently re-read Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey’s new novel, “Joanna’s Husband and David’s Wife,” I glommed onto the review which ran in the March 23 Book Review section. And while I do not think that Shelby Hearon’s review is bad, I just don’t think it is important enough or thorough enough for this inspired book. Hearon, is, after all, a published author, and perhaps the book does not speak to her as it speaks to the thousands of us--emerging house-wives--with unpublished and unproduced creative dreams of our own.

ANN RAYMOND

Tehachapi, Calif.