A novel that more or less opens with an act of uninvited groping at a college frat party is probably fated to be received as a “#MeToo book,” or a “timely” book about “our moment.” Some readers will be tempted to comb through the book to assess the correctness of its politics or the precise wave of its feminism. As one white woman who feels overrepresented in popular culture put it, “a novel sifting through the small failures (and huge successes) of a prominent young white feminist hardly feels like a major statement about the movement.