![]() ![]() ![]() Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, Post Road, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, on NPR, and in many anthologies. ' scaldingly and exhilaratingly honest account of new motherhood, emotional exile, and the complex romance of female friendship. 88654943896 Download and read After Birth by Elisa Albert online in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle and other supported format. Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, and How This Night Is Different and the editor of the anthology Freud's Blind Spot. ![]() With piercing insight about the isolation and unrealistic expectations suffered by new mothers in our society, After Birth is about pregnancy and childbirth that is ' vicious, hilarious, and above all real' (TheNew York Times Book Review). And despite her unfortunate habit of generally mistrusting other females, they soon become comrades-in-arms. Acclaimed for its insight, outrageous humor, and power to spark fierce debate, After Birth is a daring and transformative novel about friendship, history, and the body. When Mina, a one-time cult indie musicianolder, self-contained, alone, and nine months pregnantmoves to town, Ari sees the possibility of a new friend. ![]() Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights, and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it ' birth' and she still can't locate herself in her altered universe. A fierce novel about the postpartum experience filled with ' dark humor and brutal honesty' (People). ![]()
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