After Birth
by Elisa Albert
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Pub Date 2 Apr 2015 | Archive Date 3 Apr 2015
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
'After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. it is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity - to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience..' Lydia Davis
'Bukowski wrote that he preferred people who scream when they burn, and nobody burns, or screams, like Elisa Albert - a fiercely intelligent, dark and funny woman unafraid of her own anger.' Shalom Auslander
This book takes your essay about 'likeable female characters', writes FUCK YOU on it in menstrual blood, then sets it on fire. Then sets YOU on fire! Then giggles, then makes s'mores over your smouldering corpse.' Emily Gould
'A deep, funny novel about the terrors and exhilarations of love in all its forms. Elisa Albert writes with startling clarity and furious wit about marriage, motherhood and friendship, illuminating these familiar landscapes with lightening flashes of illumination.' Jenny Offill
'With After Birth, Elisa Albert has proven herself to be not only one of our most important novelists, but one of our most honest feminists. Darkly funny and impossibly wise, Albert creates a visceral sense of entrapment, a spot-on account of life as a woman. After Birth is dangerous, gripping, and essential - The Bell Jar of our time.' Diana Spechler
Marketing Plan
The novel comes heaped with early praise from the US - expect wide review coverage and attention
this is a novel that is so raw, powerful, bristling with energy and anger - it reads like a memoir
Elisa Albert tackles subjects that will engage women of all ages and are sure to provoke debate
at heart, this book is an account of life as a woman - Elisa Albert is a brave, exciting and very funny feminist
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448190768 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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