{"product_id":"9780008242299","title":"Little Labours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRivka Galchen's Little Labours is a compelling exploration of motherhood and family relationships. This top-rated book, a mix of autobiography and memoir, showcases Galchen's ability to craft a narrative that is both personal and universally relatable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Emily Oster (Das einzig wahre Baby-Handbuch), Catherine Cho (Inferno), Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts), Patricia Lockwood (Priestdaddy), and Marianne Levy (Don't Forget to Scream).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rivka Galchen, Read by Laurel Lefkow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46888982315157,"sku":"9780008242299","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008242299_e4ae68bc-9655-434a-90f5-1ed010d933a1.jpg?v=1776888210","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008242299","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}