After Birth Paperback / softback
by Elisa Albert
Paperback / softback
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Sometimes I’m with the baby and I think: you’re my heart and my soul, and I would die for you. Other times I think: tiny moron, leave me the fuck alone A year has passed since Ari gave birth and still she can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Sleep-deprived, lonely and unprepared, she struggles through the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights. Her own mother long dead and her girlhood friendships faded, she is a woman in need. When Mina – older, alone, pregnant – moves to town, Ari sees hope of a comrade-in-arms. Perhaps the hostile terrain could be more easily navigable together. With purifying anger and outrageous humour, Elisa Albert unleashes on a culture that turns its new mothers into exiles, and expects them to act like natives. And as she defines the raw experience of motherhood, Albert offers a hilarious and devastatingly honest examination of how we become the women we are.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
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- ISBN:9780099590149
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099590149