Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others and how we might know ourselves. Greengrass is an extremely thoughtful and meticulous writer, which is why, with her award-winning short-story collection.
Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Sight, Jessie Greengrass’s debut novel, falls into this latter category. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass' penetrating vision will surely expand theirs." (NPR) "With visceral, elegantly wrought truths of life and loss, this is an exciting companion to Sheila Heti's recent Motherhood (2018)." ( Booklist) In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood while remembering the death of her own mother 10 years before and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Unusual and absorbing.the novel as a whole exudes a strange consoling power." ( The New Yorker) " Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding one's balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery. Short-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "A dazzling obsessive entry in a burgeoning genre.
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