![]() ![]() Blythe gives birth to a daughter with the immense trepidation that she will fulfil the prophecy established by her mother and grandmother as a parent, and struggles when she is unable to form any connection to Violet. The central premise of the book is that Blythe, who comes from a line of women whose mothering skills are negligent at best and abusive at worst (the absence of any kind of trigger warning about this content is something I hope remedied in the non-ARC versions of this text). With that said, there’s plenty of other thematic material which could unsettle a reader. ![]() It’s worth noting I don’t have children of my own, but these are two themes which have always produced a strong emotional response in me. ![]() The Push certainly pushed – if you’ll excuse the pun – my buttons on two issues: finding motherhood difficult, and the fragmentation of a relationship once children become a part of a couple’s lives. It’s always difficult to separate the quality of a book from your own instinctive, emotional reactions to its contents. ![]()
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