![]() ![]() The choppy narrative style reflects the state of perpetual interruption that is motherhood. Leda packs in domestic life to return to academia, but abandoning her young children turns out to be a different type of violence, one which manifests decades later.Ĥ. The wholesale sublimation of self required to be a “good mother” proves too much for one woman in this dark and complex novel. Yoder brilliantly articulates the frustration accompanying self-obliteration as well as the ways in which ostensibly sweet men shirk childcare. ![]() The mother does her best to submit to her new role, smiling through her exhaustion, trying not to scream – and then she starts turning into a dog. Mummy, sing a Gruffalo, Mummy sing a Gruffalo …”Īnother woman up half the night every night, another nice but useless husband. Every night her youngest child, Moth, awakens with the demand: “Mummy, sing a Gruffalo. Due to the lack of a shop, she scratches around to provide palatable family meals using whatever she can find in the cupboard. ![]() A family of four relocates to a remote island to enable the husband to pursue … something about birds? He basically absents himself all day, returning home whenever he’s hungry, leaving his wife to raise their children while struggling to write her thesis. ![]()
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