After Birth, English edition

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I am helpless with love for Elisa Albert's work. Something about her voice and her style, not to mention her subject matter, just does it for me in a way no one else's books do, and I've been salivating for years for her to come out with another one...Albert is great on the darkness at the heart of all kinds of hallowed intimacies, and even when you're gasping, appalled by the narrator's pinched, cruel worldview, you'll never stop reading.- Emily Gould, The Millions In lesser hands, Ari might be unlikable, but Albert imbues her with searing honesty and dark humor, and the result is a fascinating protagonist for this rich novel.- Publishers Weekly A deep, funny novel about the terrors and exhilarations of love in all its forms. Elisa Albert writes with startling clarity and furious wit about marriage, motherhood and friendship, illuminating these familiar landscapes with lightning flashes of revelation. -Jenny Offil, author of Dept. of Speculation