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Look How Happy I’m Making You
Artikel-Nr:
9780525563730
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.02.2020
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Polly Rosenwaike
Gewicht:
260 g
Format:
203x128x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
POLLY ROSENWAIKE has published stories, essays, and reviews in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, The New York Times Book Review, Glimmer Train, New England Review, The Millions, and the San Francisco Chronicle. The fiction editor for Michigan Quarterly Review, she lives in Ann Arbor with the poet Cody Walker and their two daughters.
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The women in Polly Rosenwaike s Look How Happy I'm Making You want to be mothers, or aren t sure they want to be mothers, or having recently given birth are overwhelmed by what they ve wrought. One woman struggling with infertility deals with the news that her sister is pregnant. Another, nervous about her biological clock, forgets to take her birth control while dating a younger man and must confront the possibility of becoming a single parent. Four motherless women who meet in a bar every Mother s Day contend with their losses and what it would mean for one of them to have a child.
Clever, empathetic, and precisely observed, these stories offer rare, honest portrayals of pregnancy and new motherhood in a culture obsessed with women s most intimate choices.
GLAMOUR KIRKUS REVIEWS
The women in Polly Rosenwaike s Look How Happy I'm Making You want to be mothers, or aren t sure they want to be mothers, or having recently given birth are overwhelmed by what they ve wrought. One woman struggling with infertility deals with the news that her sister is pregnant. Another, nervous about her biological clock, forgets to take her birth control while dating a younger man and must confront the possibility of becoming a single parent. Four motherless women who meet in a bar every Mother s Day contend with their losses and what it would mean for one of them to have a child.
Clever, empathetic, and precisely observed, these stories offer rare, honest portrayals of pregnancy and new motherhood in a culture obsessed with women s most intimate choices.