My Work
β Scribed by Olga Ravn
- Book ID
- 112050968
- Publisher
- Book*hug Press
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 302 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771668644
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of the International Booker Prizeβshortlisted literary sensation,The Employees , comes a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood.
Anna is utterly lost. Still in shock after the birth of her son, she moves to snowbound Stockholm with her newborn and boyfriend, where a chasm soon opens between the couple. Lonely and isolated, Anna reads too many internet articles and shops for clothes she cannot afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she must read and write herself back into her proper place in the world.
My Work is a fervent, intimate, and compulsive examination of the relationship between motherhood, writing, and everyday life. In a mesmerizing, propulsive blend of prose, poetry, journal entries, and letters, Olga Ravn probes the pain, postpartum depression, housework, shopping, mundanity, and anxiety of motherhood, all the while celebrating the unbounded that comes from...
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