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This book blew me away. Fearless, smart, and so real. Best book I have read about those first months after motherhood (so often romanticized -- but a surprise horror show for many) -- post partum depression/anxiety from the inside. Loved it.


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After Birth Elisa Albert 9780544273733 Books Reviews

really amazing book. I couldn't put it down.
A funny, dark, tender, caustic, and honest, oh so honest, account of new motherhood. Perfectly captures the no one told me it would be like this state of shock first time mothers often experience. Mothering is hard and lonely, full of love for your child and a sense of loss for who you were before. Elisa Albert's novel nails that and so much more. I wish I'd had this book with my first child. Give it to anyone you know who is expecting.

Caveat while I don't normally comment on reviews of others, the one starred reviews here are largely written by people who did not finish the book because they are offended by "f words." So if swearing bugs you, don't read this book. Sorry, but it irks me when readers give negative reviews on a book they haven't read in its entirety.
Is it common for female fiction writers these days to be so flippant, crass...and feminist at the same time? Are there other authors like this that I should know about?

This is a very modern book about the transformation and trauma of new motherhood.

I found parts of the larger storyline to be not so realistic, like the fact that the main character is so obsessed with becoming friends with a woman rock star who moves to town. On the other hand, so many of the smaller details were extremely well-written and enjoyable to read. For example on page 10 where she tells her story of finding a husband "I was with a series of angry f***ers up til Paul, real flip-you-over-try-to-hurt-you-types, not a lot of eye contact. Thought I was having fun."

As a doula for two decades, I've been aware of the fact that mothers are as isolated today as when my mother was having babies in the 1960s. But only recently (probably when I became a mother myself) do I feel that I've fully grasped how deep a problem this is. The author published this book at age 36, which means she probably wrote it in her early 30s. I'm older than her so I really admire her mature and laser-sharp critique of the way our culture isolates mothers.

On page 14 she says "Who can say I'm not a good mother? Who can say I don't read the subject headings in the books? The How to Care for Your Child if There Is Absolutely No One with Any Primal Knowledge Around to Guide You guides. What to Expect When There is No Received Wisdom Whatsoever."

She captures how even health care providers and friends often have no idea that postpartum depression has taken hold.

The main character is from a privileged background, and I love reading insightful reflections by people on their race and class background, whether they're disadvantage or privileged. The author pretty much failed here, I thought. She seems like a brat when she's discussing class issues, and I really had to put aside how irritating she was in order to read through those (small) sections of the book.

Toward the end there was a section of about 3 pages, I think, in which the narrator discusses how her grandmother survived the Holocaust. That was shocking and perhaps it was a matter of importance, but it seemed to come out of nowhere and I didn't know why it was included in the book or whether it should've been there. The author doesn't shy away from shock value in general, I guess.

She nails so much of new motherhood, as well as womanhood. Subtle harassment for breastfeeding. Birth trauma. The difference between good breastfeeding advice and bad advice. Figuring out all the shades of sexual orientation. Breastfeeding and sexuality. The small ways we help each other survive postpartum.

Glad I read it.
Great!
Fiction that tells a little bit of every woman's struggle to be oneself with the new role of mother. The main character speaks of suicide, but not in the intentional sense, more like a way to confirm that the individual has power still despite the ravages of a botched C-section and a bad birth experience. I found her grim musings hilarious and wish I had owned this book when I was a new mom because I would have felt less crazy. Bitter, yes, but in the cynically funny sense while speaking honestly of how women can be terrible at supporting each other.
Unlike other reviewers, I am wholly convinced that Ari (Elisa?) is a great mother. Acknowledging motherhood is hard is not a flaw in my book. It's the two-sided medal of motherhood that is mercilessly described here, both fierce love and relentlessness. The alienating, isolating, shoot-me-in-the-head part of it in the early days no one tells you about.
What is worse in Ari's case is she can't get over her c-section, and she is not close physically or figuratively to any friends, so she goes through the experience alone.
So, the book reads half coming of age (or should we say coming into motherhood?) novel, part ranting against society, herself... with a very fierce stance pro-breastfeeding (yay Ari!) but translating also into a very pointed attack against mothers who don't breastfeed (not so yay Ari!) Boy, was I glad to sit on the good side of the fence when I read that diatribe.
I was perplexed by the end. It doesn't "wrap up" nicely. It's pretty open ended. It's strange to me that her friendship with her neighbour, the focus point of the book from a narrative point, just fades away and Ari doesn't talk about it anymore. Seems to me the novel would have had more weight and structure by being organised around that part. But what do I know.
If people liked this novel, they might really enjoy Rachel's Cusk "On becoming a mother" too. It's written in a more falsely detached way (not as raw) but with the same despair and humour about the trials of having a baby.
This book blew me away. Fearless, smart, and so real. Best book I have read about those first months after motherhood (so often romanticized -- but a surprise horror show for many) -- post partum depression/anxiety from the inside. Loved it.