It is unfiltered on some vulnerable topics. Trigger warning: if you have little ones or are trying to start a family save this for another life stage. It also raised the question: what do I do if my motherly instincts go against loving my own child? There are definite twists at the end that still have me thinking. It dealt with societal expectations of women, stay at home mothers, and motherly instincts. At times this book was sad, but mostly it was a raw, vulnerable, and unedited view of motherhood at its unadulterated, ugly core. It could have been any of the female characters in the novel since their situation seemed to be cyclical. At first it was hard to keep track of who was being spoken about, but then I realized after reading other reviews that it was purposeful. I was really surprised at how quickly this book drew me in. The Push is a tour de force you will listen in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.Īn impactful, raw view of the unseen side of motherhood. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then their son Sam is born - and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. "Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to the end." ( Good Morning America )Ī tense, pause-resisting psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family - and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for - and everything she fearedīlythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.īut in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. "Utterly addictive." (Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train ) A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | A New York Times best seller!
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