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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 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” 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 —
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.
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