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Availability:In StockContributor:Danit BrownPublish date:2025-06-24Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891831ISBN-10:1685891837UPC:9781685891831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Family Life, FriendshipSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGQ8AV47B
For fans of Nightbitch, a darkly humorous debut novel asks what happens when motherhood isn't all it's cracked up to be . . .

Estie isn't sure she likes being eight months pregnant. She isn't even sure she likes her husband anymore, especially after he hid that he's been fired from his job. Hello parenthood! Goodbye life as Estie imagined it! Now, she's stranded and bloated and alone. Her cat is not a people person, and on top of it all, her best friend has been ignoring her calls ever since Estie told her about the baby.

After Estie gives birth, she begins to suspect that all the stories she's been told about motherhood might not be true. Having a child does not "complete" her. And that mythical connection with her baby? Well, she's still waiting. In fact, Estie fears she is destined to end up like her own mother--divorced and crying in the bathroom while her daughter stands outside the door and wonders if she's okay.

Startlingly honest and unsentimental, Television for Women explores the realities of life postpartum, the demands children make on women's identities and relationships--and the desperate lengths someone might go to in order to reclaim the person she once was.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891831ISBN-10:1685891837UPC:9781685891831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Family Life, FriendshipSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGQ8AV47B
Danit Brown holds an MFA in fiction from Indiana University. Her stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Story, Glimmer Train, StoryQuarterly, and One Story. Her short story collection, Ask for a Convertible, was published in 2008. Brown currently teaches at Albion College in Michigan.
Publisher: Melville House Publishing

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