After Birth

Sometimes I'm with the baby and I think: you're my heart and my soul, and I would die for you. Other times I think: tiny moron, leave me the fuck alone 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elisa Albert
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780099590149
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959014-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General