When the bough breaks movie plot5/16/2023 While in this case Duncan eschews the mystery/suspense elements, the changing social mores of the 70s remain front and center. This week’s selection is, at first glance, an oddball volume in Duncan’s bibliography: you can tell that from the cover art, which is not even remotely terrifying. However, her work from the late 1960s through the 70s also explicitly addresses how both the teenage heroines and their mothers are dealing with the social and political gains and compromises of the women’s movement and how it is affecting family life. Background: Lois Duncan is best known for her YA thrillers, which often involve a supernatural element, such as telepathy or psychic intuition, or witchcraft.
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