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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: After Birth
• Author: Elisa Albert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780099590149
• ISBN: 009959014X
• ID: 09480856
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 172 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. April 2016

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