Take a Shelfie fwweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fwweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tenderloin | Shelf Awareness shelf-awareness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shelf-awareness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mom noir: 3 books that take a different view of motherhood, from the mundane to the macabre news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Relief of a Happy Parenting Novel theatlantic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theatlantic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Throughout Olga Ravns latest novel, My Work, protagonist and new mother Anna repeatedly says she wants to write a normal book. Its a brilliant refrain, because of course Ravns book is anything but normal, though it is an ambitious one.
We'll be looking at different excerpts from texts that focus on the range of women's emotionality, looking at characters who experience rage, obsession, violence, ecstasy, true selflessness even, thinking about the societal why of it all, and how its portrayed believably on the page (or even screen because you know I'm going to talk about Yellowjackets at some point.)
Motherhood is hard. Immersing myself in the spectacular fails of fictional matriarchs helped me realize I’m not alone in my struggles — and I’m not totally blowing it, after all.