A review by lunalovespudding
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
1.25
I dont know who she hates more herself or her child.
The comparisons of birth with death and hell/prison with parenthood and constant comparisons of her child to random objects or an animal really bugged me
The big revelation that motherhood is not achieved just by giving birth but through being there and experiences should not take that long.
In this book she spends all her time feeling sorry for herself (even before the child is born) and drowning in feelings of unfamiliarity and exhaustion that come with her new life.
Longing for a certain sense of self is human, but that book did not just describe her experiences but also portrayed the inevitable misery of becoming a mother with a somewhat problematic view of womanhood.
The comparisons of birth with death and hell/prison with parenthood and constant comparisons of her child to random objects or an animal really bugged me
The big revelation that motherhood is not achieved just by giving birth but through being there and experiences should not take that long.
In this book she spends all her time feeling sorry for herself (even before the child is born) and drowning in feelings of unfamiliarity and exhaustion that come with her new life.
Longing for a certain sense of self is human, but that book did not just describe her experiences but also portrayed the inevitable misery of becoming a mother with a somewhat problematic view of womanhood.