![]() ![]() In my own experience, the book reads similarly to Kafka's Metamorphosis, peppered with even more fantastical scenes such as where her giant owl lover tears into a shop and asks her if she would like to abort the child. Oshetsky nails the themes of motherhood, the isolation and depression from being left at home with a baby, the inability to see the flaws and often spoiling of the child, the sacrifice of the mother's career and health, and finally the heartbreak when the child grows up and no longer needs the mother's care and advice. She wishes the baby to be brought up "as she is", while her husband totters between repulsion at the strange baby or desperately seeking medical cures for her. It instead shows motherhood through the lens of Tiny, our protagonist, who sees the world through a less than "normal" perspective, having a baby with her owl lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s a wonder that any woman ever agrees to be a mother, when the fruits of motherhood are inevitably conflict and remorse, to be followed by death and disembowelment.” - ChouetteĬhouette is a fantastical, dark, book about motherhood, but where it shines is that it avoids general flowery descriptions of birth, or veer too deeply into metaphors. Obligatory english is not my native language (I'm chinese) so if this post is a bit rambly or jumpy so sorry~ ![]()
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