# After Birth

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- Book: [After Birth](https://www.bookquiver.com/elisa-albert/after-birth) ([After Birth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elisa-albert/after-birth.md))
- Authors: [Elisa Albert](https://www.bookquiver.com/elisa-albert)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4819-076-8
- Published: 2015-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Sometimes I’m with the baby and I think: you’re my heart and my soul, and I would die for you. Other times I think: tiny moron, leave me the fuck alone A year has passed since Ari gave birth and still she can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Sleep-deprived, lonely and unprepared, she struggles through the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights. Her own mother long dead and her girlhood friendships faded, she is a woman in need. When Mina – older, alone, pregnant – moves to town, Ari sees hope of a comrade-in-arms. Perhaps the hostile terrain could be more easily navigable together. With purifying anger and outrageous humour, Elisa Albert unleashes on a culture that turns its new mothers into exiles, and expects them to act like natives. And as she defines the raw experience of motherhood, Albert offers a hilarious and devastatingly honest examination of how we become the women we are.