“Part love letter, part lament, Chouette astonishes as each perfected sentence burrows deep into the maternal shadows of love, possession, selfhood, and sanity. “Viscous, tender, baffling, and glorious, Chouette is an unforgettable fairy tale that glitters darkly with Oshetsky’s raw and soaring brilliance,” writes Rachel Yoder. With Chouette, Oshetsky movingly renders the variousness and sweep of motherhood. She resists her panicked husband’s search for treatments and strives to understand her daughter’s own needs and desires. “If I have this baby, it’s going to kill me.” But while Tiny’s fears endure even after she gives birth to her daughter, who does indeed turn out to be an owl, she also loves her fiercely. Tiny, a professional cellist and the narrator of Chouette, has a sense of foreboding about her pregnancy: “This baby is an owl-baby,” she tells her husband. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Claire Oshetsky, whose debut novel, Chouette, is out today from Ecco.
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