Andrea Bartz's novel, 'The Herd,' is a mystery wrapped around a parody of The Wing
, Bartz’s second novel explores the complexities of female friendship and the contradictory ambitions, secrets and anxieties that bond a group of New York City media “it" girls.
Bartz has been widely hailed as a master of the “feminist thriller,” and both “The Herd” and her 2019 debut novel, “ Still, it’s not always clear whether we should root for Bartz’s characters, whose flaws may reflect the asymmetric costs of success for women but strain any impulse toward compassion: Often they are obsessively preoccupied with insecurities about their achievements, looks and abilities in relation to their peers — the very same women they supposedly identify as allies. At their worst, they come off as ruthless, backstabbing and borderline self-obsessed.
As a result, the hellaciousness of the Herd and, more broadly, the dystopian underbelly of feminist utopia — arguably the most interesting of the novel’s themes — are left unexplored. By the end of the book, the notional centerpiece of the shared workspace feels remote, less like an overarching metaphor for how women relate to one another than a kind of borrowed set furniture.
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