<em>Sight</em> Is an Unusual Meditation on Motherhood That’s Hard to Put Down
Jessie Greengrass’s debut novel about an unnamed pregnant woman blends ruminative prose with historical insight.
by Ann Hulbert
Aug 03, 2018
1 minute
S pregnancy—that miraculous and tedious experience—dulls the brain. But not Jessie Greengrass, a British writer whose debut novel is a highly unusual contribution’s meditative narrator, an unnamed “I” who is expecting her second child, ponders big themes: the body’s mysteries, maternal responsibility, life’s unpredictability, her still-precarious sense of identity—“the underlying, animating shape of things, the way my own cogs bit and turned.”
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