Szilvia Molnar’s Writing Process Is Painful
The Nursery, Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel chronicles the earliest days of coexistence between a new mother, Miffo, recovering from childbirth and her ever-hungry baby daughter, Button. Overwhelmed by the seismic shift in her body and identity, Miffo burrows deeper into her apartment and psyche, to the brink of madness. Told with radical honesty and emotional precision, The Nursery is an essential addition to the growing canon of literary works reckoning with the complexities of motherhood.
I talked with Molnar—who was born in Budapest, raised in Sweden, and now resides in Austin, Texas—about her revision process, fictional depictions of motherhood, and the choice to
