ctaymor reviewed A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
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2 stars
I suspect that this book is excellent, and just not for me at the moment I read it. I was pregnant, deeply depressed, and searching for someone I could relate to and who gave me hope. This book is not that.
It's a deeply painful emotional memoir about the hardest, worst moments of new motherhood. As the author tells her friend (who is also a new mom), at this point in her experience, for her, there was nothing at all good about being a mom.
This is not a story about hope, or finding meaning in the drudgery and challenge of early parenthood. It just sits in the authors pain. I'm glad it was written, and I'm sure it's useful for someone, but not for me right now.