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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
February 2015
On Sale: February 17, 2015
Featuring: Ari; Mina
211 pages
ISBN: 0544273737
EAN: 9780544273733
Kindle: B00KEWAOZ0
Hardcover / e-Book
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Contemporary Women's Fiction
A widely acclaimed young writerβs 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 βbirthβ and still she can't locate herself in her 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 β older, self-contained, alone, and nine-months pregnant βmoves 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 Shriverβs We Need to Talk About Kevin and Anne Enrightβs The Gathering, this is a daring and resonant novel from one of our most visceral writers.
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