The Nursery: A Novel

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. A "brilliant.essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood" (The New York Times) and the early postpartum days, following a woman strug gling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be--and how vital love is to pull anyone out fro m the dark "A radical novel.I'm obsessed with this book." --Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete di saffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at e ase with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the ba by harm, and she struggles to reclaim her identity just as it seems to diss olve from underneath her. Feeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband, she strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbour, Peter, who hushes the baby with his oxygen tank in tow. But they are both running out of time; something is soon to crack. Joyful early days of her pregnancy mingle with the anxious arrival of the baby, and culminate in a painful confrontation - mostly, between our narrator and herself. Striking and emotive, The Nursery documents the slow process of staggering back towards the simple pleasures of.

Product Info

ISBN: 0593467787

ISBN-13: 9780593467787

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 2024

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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Country: Japan