Violet is a difficult baby who becomes a troubled child, but Fox sees little evidence of her problems and blames Blythe for not loving her enough. Interweaving memories of her life with Fox and their daughter, Violet, with the memories and voices of these two women is meant to establish a pattern: Because she comes from a line of struggling mothers, Blythe herself could only expect to struggle as a mother, and struggle she does.
The book that unfolds is this novel, and while it begins with a college meet-cute between Blythe and Fox, it truly begins with the story of Etta, who “tried very hard to be the woman she was expected to be” but battled depression that eventually led to suicide, and her daughter, Cecilia, who left altogether when Blythe was 11. She has come to deliver her written story, one that occasionally includes flashbacks to her mother's and grandmother's lives, so that she may explain to this family-her former husband, his second wife, their child, and, most of all, Blythe’s own daughter-what went wrong. 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.A finely wrought psychological study of motherhood and inherited trauma.īlythe stands outside, watching a perfect family as they move through the small joys of their Christmas Eve preparations.
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. Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was GoneĪ 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 fearedīlythe 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. "A poetic, propulsive read that set my nerves jangling." Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author "An intense psychological drama that will be embraced by serious book clubs and fans of Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin."
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