My Work by Olga Ravn (Author)

From the acclaimed author of The Employees a radical funny and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood 

After giving birth Anna is utterly lost She and her family move to the unfamiliar snowy city of Stockholm Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can t afford To avoid sinking deeper into her depression she forces herself to read and write

My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth mixing different literary forms fiction essay poetry memoir and letters to explore the relationship between motherhood work individuality and literature Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing Reading Ravn s book you run through the whole gamut of human emotion as though you too were a new mother tears laughter anger fear pain frustration. This is powerful writing that’s hard to put down Politiken