{"product_id":"the-nursery-9780593467787","title":"The Nursery","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"brilliant...essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times) \u003c\/i\u003eand the early postpartum days, following a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be--and how vital love is to pull anyone out from the dark \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A radical novel...I'm obsessed with this book.\" --Jessamine Chan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe School for Good Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the baby harm, and she struggles to reclaim her identity just as it seems to dissolve from underneath her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband, she strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbour, Peter, who hushes the baby with his oxygen tank in tow. But they are both running out of time; something is soon to crack. Joyful early days of her pregnancy mingle with the anxious arrival of the baby, and culminate in a painful confrontation - mostly, between our narrator and herself. Striking and emotive, \u003ci\u003eThe Nursery\u003c\/i\u003e documents the slow process of staggering back towards the simple pleasures of life and reentering the world after post-partum depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSZILVIA MOLNAR\u003c\/b\u003e is the foreign rights director at a New York-based literary agency, and author of a chapbook called \u003ci\u003eSoft Split\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriangle House Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Serious Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Buenos Aires Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNeue Rundschau\u003c\/i\u003e. Szilvia is from Budapest and was raised in Sweden. She lives in Austin, Texas.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614773907730,"sku":"9780593467787","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f92fe96b-2f53-4912-ac06-daef1c85a388.jpg?v=1748525038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-nursery-9780593467787","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}