Friday, November 1, 2019

The Need by Helen Phillips

"Motherhood Is Scary and Crazy and Darkly Comic. So Is This Novel About It." This is the headline title of the NY Times book review about this book and it nails it - right on.
It's a really interesting book - half sci-fi, half horror, but in the end, it's apart a woman's quest to find herself. She has fantasies and nightmares and can't figure out what's real and what's imagined. But her life seems to be unraveling.
The issues are issues that I imagine many working moms deal with, but they deal better than Molly. But who knows? How many are terrorized by these conflicting feelings?
It's powerful and strange and not like many books I have read. I really recommend it. But it's not "light."
The Times review points out that readers who are NOT moms, or parents, may not get it and may have no sympathy for Molly. I get that.....but they should try to read it and understand it

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