Mutinous Mother

But Cusk is not political or clinically depressed, or making up stories. She serves her subject - and is shaken by it.

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I'd have laid bets that colic was a subject no one could make interesting but she describes the colicky frontline brilliantly. And, at the end of three horrendous months, she observes that to be a mother is sometimes to be no more than a vegetable witness: She knows exactly when claustrophobia may become too much - and she reaches then for the steady help of writers: She writes beautifully about them and about herself.

Words are her way of staying adult, separate, fluently mutinous.

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She also subjects childcare manuals - Penelope Leach, Doctor Spock et al - to satirical scrutiny; her book should be read alongside them because her writing is such an antidote to their bland, knowing prose. She writes about not knowing, about the mother as a lost soul. Hers is a book of doubts. One of the implied doubts is about the subject itself.

Mutinous Mother by Mark Lindquist

Being a mother and writing about it are a contradiction in terms. As a mother you are meant to be secondary, selfless - not to take, as Cusk bravely does, centre stage. Her partner spots the nice irony, joking to friends that they are moving to the country where he will look after the children while Rachel writes a book about looking after the children.

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Cusk emerges as someone for whom resistance is second nature. She dislikes groups and yet pines for a community of feeling. A friend tells her 'quite firmly' that she must not forget 'all the good things' about being a mother. I felt 'the good thing' we missed was the baby herself. Cusk protectively under-exposes her. She is at the heart of the book and outside it. She describes the book as a letter to women 'in the hope that they find some companionship in my experience'. No mother could fail to be interested and moved.

Mutinous Mother

Most will recognise themselves in some ways. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Mutinous Mother by Mark Lindquist. The plot is built around a team of genetic engineers who create and struggle with the results of genetic modification that will likely take place by the mid twenty-first century. Satire and critique topics include the insanity of: This multi-layered, experimental novel will challenge your personal beliefs while you are thoroughly entertained.

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