After birth
Albert, Elisa, 1978-2015
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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.
Main title:
After birth / Elisa Albert.
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Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2015.
Collation:
196 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780701188726 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GEN
Language:
English
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BRN:
1114922
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