Thank you for this review and reflection! As I think I mentioned before, motherhood/non-motherhood and everything in between is one of my real research interests, and I have been reading a lot around these lately for a project I'm working on. I just finished 'The Lost Daughter' and found it an unusual and interesting read...still processing that one. Would love to read Ravn's book. Heti's book is written in such an unusual hybrid of fiction/essay and really tackles the issues I see women around me struggling with. I just started Penelope Mortimer's 'Daddy's Gone a Hunting', which is a 1950s/60s book and makes a great contrast to Ferrante's as it shows a woman/mother who's identity is evaporating in the domestic space.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I really wanted to write about Ravn's book after your last comment about it, and I hope you can get to it--it's a very peculiar book in terms of format/structure (the US edition has *endnotes*!) but one that really gripped me in more ways than one!
And I had scheduled my post and then saw your round-up for the month and thought "ooh I hope Kate does share at some point her thoughts on The Lost Daughter"! And thanks for sharing Mortimer's title, I am definitely adding it to my list!
Thank you for this review and reflection! As I think I mentioned before, motherhood/non-motherhood and everything in between is one of my real research interests, and I have been reading a lot around these lately for a project I'm working on. I just finished 'The Lost Daughter' and found it an unusual and interesting read...still processing that one. Would love to read Ravn's book. Heti's book is written in such an unusual hybrid of fiction/essay and really tackles the issues I see women around me struggling with. I just started Penelope Mortimer's 'Daddy's Gone a Hunting', which is a 1950s/60s book and makes a great contrast to Ferrante's as it shows a woman/mother who's identity is evaporating in the domestic space.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I really wanted to write about Ravn's book after your last comment about it, and I hope you can get to it--it's a very peculiar book in terms of format/structure (the US edition has *endnotes*!) but one that really gripped me in more ways than one!
And I had scheduled my post and then saw your round-up for the month and thought "ooh I hope Kate does share at some point her thoughts on The Lost Daughter"! And thanks for sharing Mortimer's title, I am definitely adding it to my list!
I'm sure I will be returning to discuss The Lost Daughter! Such a strange premise with the doll...