I am glad so many other people enjoyed this, but as someone who reads *lots* of writing by women from the 1950s, I couldn't stand how ahistorical this one.   Garmus is writing an imaginary 1950s based on popular culture, and it doesn't read like she did any research into the actual historical period.  There were lots of women pursuing careers at the time, against popular stereotypes, and struggling to balance marriage and family needs against career needs, and feeling the social pressure to conform and trying to figure out what femininity and womanhood and everything meant -- and some of them wrote about it and NONE of it looks anything like this.