The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s kansas city, india bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life. Before betty friedan wrote there was, an inspired novel set in the years around...The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s kansas city, india bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life. Before betty friedan wrote there was, an inspired novel set in the years around World War II that testified to the sapping ennui of an unexamined suburban life.