Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

How it reads

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World is narrative nonfiction (political open letter, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and class and society. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 179 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.