Jenny offill goodreads5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And the truth is really much duller: that we haven't had anything so dramatic happen to us, although, like any couple, of course, we've had our moments where things seem to wobble. There are many autobiographical things in the book - the obvious thing that people gravitate towards is whether or not I'm the wife and my husband is the husband. On how much of the book is based on her own life And I wanted to try to put some of that into a book. And instead, what I saw more often in the women I knew, especially the women that had a great passion for some kind of work, was that they were just struggling to bridge the person they used to be with the person they were now - and that maternal love, which is quite fierce and can be obliterating of what came before it. ![]() The word that would come up if you talked about the complexities of motherhood would be "ambivalence," and I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. I felt like the conversation about motherhood felt a little narrow to me. On how her experience as a mother influenced her writing of the book of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries) 1,385 Kindle Edition 119916.00 Other formats: Audible Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD Weather: A novel 1,261 Kindle Edition 99916. was that they were just struggling to bridge the person they used to be with the person they were now. : Jenny Offill: books, biography, latest update Books 18 titles Sort by: Popularity Dept. And instead, what I saw more often in the women I knew. I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. ![]()
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