The Push

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The most thought-provoking exploration of motherhood I've come across since We Need to Talk About Kevin Clare Pooley They may balk at the idea that a mother can FEEL this way toward any of her children-beyond the Postpartum Depression stage that many women experience. Does Blythe act biased around her daughter or is she really inherited the madness of her grandmother?

Before he leaves, Fox also admits to something from a long time ago. At one point, Blythe’s expensive clothes had gone missing after they tried out a new cleaning company. He tells Blythe that he’d actually caught Violet cutting them up. Then he tells Blythe that even so, Violet deserved more from Blythe, but that Blythe had deserved more from him as well. What is The Push book by Ashley Audrain about? Essentially, The Push by Ashley Audrain is essentially about whether a couple’s child is inherently good or bad and why. At the heart of the story is a young married couple with two small children, one of which the mother suspects to have a darker side. One very questionable moment involving these children changes everything in their lives forever as this central question is explored. I must have cried no less than five times whilst reading this book. It's about mothers and motherhood and paranoia (maybe?) and stress. It's feeling like you're constantly being dismissed and undervalued. It's getting to the point where you feel like you can't trust your own mind. And it contains one of the most shattering portrayals of grief I've ever read. Do you think Blythe is like the women who came before her? How so and why do you think things turned out differently for her?

Meanwhile, Blythe is lonely at home. She starts casually sleeping with a man, a not particularly successful literary agent, but she suspects he’s also interested in having her write something that he could monetize. With the new baby, the connection is immediate, what she’s been looking for. Violet didn’t care much for Sam, but Sam adores Violet. Blythe is surprised that Violet accepts the change surprisingly well, and things are better in the house for a while. Meanwhile, Blythe throws herself into activities for Sam. Fox is the only one who is unhappy, making comments about how Blythe makes more of an effort with Sam than she did wit Violet. One day Fox takes Violet to his office, and Violet mention a new assistant, Gemma.

Afterwards, Blythe tells the police this, but Fox insists it was an accident. When Blythe insists it was Violet, Fox shushes Blythe, even when Blythe insists the stroller wouldn’t roll over the sidewalk groove even if let go. Afterwards, Blythe recalls how Violet had inquired about how streetlights work the weekend before.Blythe finds her daughter to be a nuisance and, as she gets older, is convinced there's something fundamentally wrong with Violet that makes her unlovable. Visceral, compulsive and astonishing. I could not put this down Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path