Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedt

A woman writer evokes the year she passed in New York back in 1978, when she was 23. The novel she intended to write, the next door intriguing woman, the friends she finally made, her childhood, and most of all the feelings of both that young woman and this woman writer are (some of) the topics of this novel written in terrific prose. Once and again she remembers us the facts about being a woman in a world where "powerful men are admired and powerful women are hated".