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Ladataan... After BirthTekijä: Elisa Albert
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. After Birth is a bit of a strange book. It's about Ari a year after she has given birth, but it also reflects on her pregnancy and her past friendships with women. She's not a likable character at all, she has a history of having issues with women, she hates them, and now she is suffering from postpartum depression and projecting her mothering views onto people. Ari is very isolated and is just looking for something to hold onto. There's lots of humor in the writing and honest feelings that I think most people can relate to some of them in some way. I loved how sometimes things didn't make sense and her logic was circular at times because that's what its like to have a mental illness, it doesn't have to make sense, its a rush unexplainable mess at times.
While the book’s aim is admirable, the self-importance of the main character may leave a bad taste in the mouth of readers, and their time may be better spent researching the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression.
A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as high stakes a proving ground as any combat zone. A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it "birth" to begin with and she still can't locate herself in her own altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician-older, self-contained, alone, and nine months pregnant-moves to town, Ari sees the possibility of a new friend, despite her unfortunate habit of generally mistrusting women. Soon they become comrades in arms, and the previously hostile terrain seems almost navigable. With piercing insight, purifying anger, and outrageous humor, Elisa Albert issues a wake-up call to a culture that turns its new mothers into exiles and expects them to act like natives. Like Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin and Anne Enright's The Gathering, this is a daring and resonant novel from one of our most visceral writers. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The book is a little hard to read, as we are reading it like ambling thoughts that come into your brain and there is a lot of that. But isn't that how we all are? Just sometimes hard to follow. ( )