Book World: Why is 'The Push' so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother's worst fears.
Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: Why is 'The Push' so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother's worst fears. Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Jan. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Ashley Audrain - - - The new year's first blockbuster novel is "The Push," by Ashley Audrain, a psychological suspense tale about a mother's fears that her preschool-age daughter may be a psycho killer. If this premise sounds familiar, you may be recalling The Mother of All Evil Spawn Stories, the 1956 film "The Bad Seed." (When I was growing up in New York, occasional reruns of "The ...