Chouette

Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying. Every time I thought I had cracked Chouette's central metaphor - aha, it's about motherhood! No, marriage! No, music! - the book flew out my grasp like a wary bird. It's a truly exhilarating read. * Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind * Chouette is a hypnotic read that captures the strangeness and ferocity of motherhood - poetic, dark and striking. * Catherine Cho, author of Inferno * Chouette is deeply felt, linguistically gorgeous, and wonderfully disorienting up to its final breathless pages-a stunning meditation on motherhood and identity truly unlike anything I've ever read before. * Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had * An intensely strange and moving novel, Chouette is unlike anything else. It renders maternal love with mythological ferocity. Weird and darkly witty, Chouette kept drawing me deeper into its wild and dangerous territories. * Naomi Booth, author of Sealed * From the dark woods of motherhood, Chouette swoops - fierce, feral, poetic and deft. From an extraordinary beginning to its ecstatic end, I was gripped and held by this beautiful and deeply strange fable. A singular and inventive book about maternal instinct and helping the children we are gifted to find their own distinct forms of flight. * Liz Berry, poet, author of Black Country and The Republic of Motherhood *