My Work
Time is nonlinear. The novel is fragmentary ... This collage could be frustrating — a stylish evasion of plot or character. Instead, it is exactly right, capturing the overwhelming disorientation of early motherhood ... There are moments when My Work is long-winded and needlessly repetitive. But these are forgivable flaws, given the rare skill with which Ravn dramatizes the psychic commotion of motherhood.
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A process of rediscovery ... Both Anna and the narrator compare stylistic flaws to mistakes in their parenting ... Fluid.
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Of course Ravn’s book is anything but normal, though it is an ambitious one ... Displays...power ... Ravn has created a truly unique project which is not so much a story as it is an accumulation.
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