{"product_id":"chouette-9780349014913","title":"Chouette","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* ''A marvel'' Rumaan Alam * ''Frighteningly elegant'' \u003ci\u003eiNews\u003c\/i\u003e * ''Harrowing and magnificent'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA FIERCE, DARK FABLE ABOUT MOTHERHOOD THAT WILL GRIP YOU IN ITS TALONS AND NEVER LET GO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Chouette is born, Tiny''s husband and family are devastated by her condition and strange appearance. Doctors tell them to expect the worst. Chouette won''t learn to walk; she never speaks; she lashes out when frightened and causes chaos in public. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTiny''s husband wants to make her better but Tiny thinks their child is perfect the way she is. In her fierce self-possession, her untameable will, Chouette teaches Tiny to break free of expectations - no matter what it takes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire Oshetsky's novel is \u003cb\u003ea marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying\u003c\/b\u003e. Every time I thought I had cracked \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e's central metaphor - aha, it's about motherhood! No, marriage! No, music! - the book flew out my grasp like a wary bird. It's \u003cb\u003ea truly exhilarating read.\u003c\/b\u003e * Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSearing and ethereal\u003c\/b\u003e . . . In fiction, supernatural premises are notoriously hard to land, but \u003ci\u003eChouette'\u003c\/i\u003es final moments are among its loveliest. Human and owl meet in equal measure on the page in a crescendo of stunning lines. Just as Tiny longs for the world to meet her daughter where she is instead of forcing her into societal norms, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is best met where it resides: as \u003cb\u003ea harrowing and magnificent fable.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Marie-Helene Bertino * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrighteningly elegant, darkly funny, horrifyingly tender\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Like all the best fables, Chouette locates a current of human darkness pulsing just below its surface. . . Oshetsky has produced a troubling triumph that is brave enough to leave its biggest questions unanswered. -- Emily Watkins * iNews *\u003cbr\u003eOshetsky describes the novel as being inspired by her experience of raising \"non-conforming children\", and is herself autistic. Her depiction of a baby who misses its developmental milestones, doesn't speak and lashes out when frightened will be familiar to some families with experience of disability or neurodiversity. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is a sublime parable of mother-love which ferociously eviscerates society's failure to accept nonconformity\u003c\/b\u003e . . . It would not surprise me if \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e finds a place in the feminist literary canon. It has lingered in my mind in a way that only the most original works do. -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThis wildly imagined debut presents \u003cb\u003ea parable of maternal love unlike any other you'll have encountered \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Dark wit, tenderness, music, enchantment - they're all part of a story that remains oddly relatable despite its dazzling strangeness. -- Hepzhibah Anderson * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eViscous, tender, baffling, and glorious, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable fairy tale that glitters darkly with Oshetsky's \u003cb\u003eraw and soaring brilliance\u003c\/b\u003e. Part love letter, part lament, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e astonishes as each perfected sentence burrows deep into the maternal shadows of love, possession, selfhood, and sanity. \u003cb\u003eA bone-deep, breathtaking wonder.\u003c\/b\u003e * Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic read that captures the strangeness and ferocity of motherhood - \u003cb\u003epoetic, dark and striking\u003c\/b\u003e. * Catherine Cho, author of Inferno *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is deeply felt, linguistically gorgeous, and wonderfully disorienting up to its final breathless pages-\u003cb\u003ea stunning meditation on motherhood and identity truly unlike anything I've ever read before.\u003c\/b\u003e * Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had *\u003cbr\u003eAn intensely strange and moving novel, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike anything else. It \u003cb\u003erenders maternal love with mythological ferocity\u003c\/b\u003e. Weird and darkly witty, \u003ci\u003eChouette \u003c\/i\u003ekept drawing me deeper into its wild and dangerous territories. * Naomi Booth, author of Sealed *\u003cbr\u003eFrom the dark woods of motherhood, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e swoops - fierce, feral, poetic and deft. From an extraordinary beginning to its ecstatic end, \u003cb\u003eI was gripped and held by this beautiful and deeply strange fable\u003c\/b\u003e. A singular and inventive book about maternal instinct and helping the children we are gifted to find their own distinct forms of flight. * Liz Berry, poet, author of Black Country and The Republic of Motherhood *\u003cbr\u003eWritten in perfectly balanced prose, \u003ci\u003eChouette\u003c\/i\u003e does what the very best fantastical work does: it renders a vividly absurd picture which, as we look closer, depicts our reality more sharply than any realism could do. \u003cb\u003eExuberant, maddened, and sly\u003c\/b\u003e, this book gives more straight-talk about the vagaries of motherhood than a dozen how-to manuals. * Brian Evenson, author of Song For the Unraveling of the World *\u003cbr\u003eThere are many stories that address the myriad themes of motherhood, but it would be hard to find one that did it in such an utterly original way as \u003ci\u003eChouette. \u003c\/i\u003eDrawing on her own experiences of mothering non-conforming children, Oshetsky weaves a contemporary fable so affecting, yet \u003cb\u003ebrimming with humour and life, that you'll probably tear through it in one sitting.\u003c\/b\u003e * Happy Magazine, Australia *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733642260823,"sku":"9780349014913","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349014913.jpg?v=1720000986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chouette-9780349014913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}