{"product_id":"monsters-martyrs-and-marionettes-essays-on-motherhood-volume-16-9781771669030","title":"Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood Volume 16","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocumenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use one's body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child. Each piece peers into the seemingly mundane to show us the mortal and emotional consequences of maternal bonds, placing experiences of \"being a mom\" within broader contexts--historical, literary, biological, and psychological--to speak to the ugly realities of parenthood often omitted from mainstream conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, these deeply moving, graceful essays force us to consider how close we are to death, even in the most average of moments, and how beauty is a necessary celebration amidst the chaos of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eADRIENNE GRUBER\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eQ \u0026amp; A\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuoyancy Control\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis is the Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e, and the creative nonfiction collection, \u003ci\u003eMonsters, Martyrs, and Marionnettes: Essays on Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e. She won the 2015 \u003ci\u003eAntigonish Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Great Blue Heron poetry contest, \u003ci\u003eSubTerrain\u003c\/i\u003e's 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in \u003ci\u003eEvent\u003c\/i\u003e's 2020 creative non-fiction contest, and was the runner up in\u003ci\u003e SubTerrain\u003c\/i\u003e's 2023 creative non-fiction contest. Both her poetry and non-fiction has been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012, \u003ci\u003eMimic\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex_wlélex_m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522978386194,"sku":"9781771669030","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d358288-39e5-4d6e-9de8-d6fe69390e94.jpg?v=1731131094","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/monsters-martyrs-and-marionettes-essays-on-motherhood-volume-16-9781771669030","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}