My Work -- Olga Ravn, Paperback

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.

My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms--fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters--to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature."Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravn's book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing that's hard to put down."--Politiken

Author: Olga Ravn
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780811234719

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2023