Sight

✍ Scribed by Jessie Greengrass

• Publisher: Crown/Archetype;Hogarth
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 135 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0525574603

✦ Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
'A beautiful debut... Greengrass is an important new voice in fiction.' – Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon
'A brilliant and meditative piece of art.' – Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
'Elegant and intelligent, troubling and serious... exquisitely well-assembled.' – Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
'A masterpiece of restraint and intensity.' – Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.
Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the...