Eleven Hours

Eleven Hours
- An NPR Best Book of 2016
- AÂ New Yorker Book We Loved in 2016
- Named to Kirkus Reviews'Â Best Books of 2016
- The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2016
- Flavorwire Most Anticipated Book
From the critically acclaimed author of The Virgins, Eleven Hours is an intimate exploration of the physical and mental challenges of childbirth, told with unremitting suspense and astonishing beauty.
Lore arrives at the hospital aloneâ€•no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity wardâ€•herself on the verge of showingâ€•is patient with the young woman. She knows what itâ€™s like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. She knows as well as anyone the severe challenge of childbirth, what it does to the mind and the body.

Â Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life thatâ€™s waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which sheâ€™s exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erensâ€™s novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth, and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhoodâ€•with fear and joy, anguish and awe.
Country USA
Brand Tin House Books
Manufacturer Tin House Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781941040294
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781941040294

Country	USA
Brand	Tin House Books
Manufacturer	Tin House Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781941040294
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781941040294

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