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A extensively 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 transferred since Ari offered birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble contacting it "birth" to begin with, and she still can't locate herself in her own changed universe. Amid the odd, disjointed rhythms of her days and times and another impending winter in upstate NY, Ari is a tree without root base, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician--older, self-contained, by themselves, and nine calendar months pregnant--moves to town, Ari considers the opportunity of a new friend despite her regrettable habit of generally mistrusting women. Soon they become comrades-in-arms, and the previously hostile terrain seems almost navigable. With piercing perception, purifying anger, and outrageous laughter, Elisa Albert issues a wake-up call to a culture that changes its new moms into exiles and expects them to act like natives. Like Lionel Shriver's We Need to Discuss Kevin and Anne Enright's The Gathering, this is a daring and resonant novel from one in our most visceral authors.
