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A fierce and darkly joyful fable about mothering an unusual child from an electric new voice
'A MARVEL' RUMAAN ALAM
'MAGNIFICENT' NEW YORK TIMES
'A TRIUMPH' i
'SUBLIME' GUARDIAN
'DAZZLING' OBSERVER
When Chouette is born, Tiny's husband and family are devastated by her condition and strange appearance. Doctors tell them to expect the worst. Chouette won't learn to walk; she never speaks; she lashes out when frightened and causes chaos in public.
Tiny's husband wants to make her better but Tiny thinks their child is perfect the way she is. In her fierce self-possession, her untameable will, she teaches Tiny to break free of expectations - no matter what it takes.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
Praise for Chouette
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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
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Chouette is a hypnotic read that captures the strangeness and ferocity of motherhood - poetic, dark and striking. - Catherine Cho, author of Inferno
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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
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Viscous, tender, baffling, and glorious, Chouette is an unforgettable fairy tale that glitters darkly with Oshetsky's raw and soaring brilliance. Part love letter, part lament, Chouette astonishes as each perfected sentence burrows deep into the maternal shadows of love, possession, selfhood, and sanity. A bone-deep, breathtaking wonder. - Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
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