Will Blythe be the carbon copy of those two woman? Will she suck to be a caring parent? It’s about the art of being a good mother! What defines a good mother? If you haven’t been raised by good role models who haven’t taught you how to care, how to be patient, understanding and reasonable, also passionate parent, this would mean you would be destined to fail at parenthood!īlythe has shittiest heritage: a grandmother suffered from mental illness who has been tortured her own daughter for years and ended her life tragically, a mother who was mostly lost in her life, showing no care or attention to her, leaving without a word. I’m soooo tense! I can explode at any second! My heart is pounding so fast! My knuckles turning white! I’m a mess! Since watching A Quiet Place, I haven’t been so edgy, anxious, an UTO ( I unidentifiable trembling object) but here I am! This book is freaking good deserves more than my five stars! I proudly announce another grandiose WINNER! This is freaking earth shattering, oh my goodness what the hell I just read I cannot gather my wits, I feel like hit by car kind of reading!!!! The Push is a tour de force you will read 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. 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. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Ī tense, page-turning 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 feared.īlythe 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.

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