Do We Look At Domestic Fiction Differently Based On Whether A Man Or A Woman Wrote It? Cheryl Strayed And Pankaj Mishra Weigh In

Mishra: “Novels about suburban families are more likely to be greeted as microcosmic explorations of the human condition if they are by male writers; their female counterparts are rarely allowed to transcend the category of domestic fiction.”
Strayed: “Notions of domesticity and femaleness are so entangled that many presume it’s the only thing women can write about … There’s been nary a day in the past decade that I haven’t had to set someone straight about the fact that I wrote my books for people, not women.”