My Work

From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood.After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she cant afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary formsfiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and lettersto explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravns book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing thats hard to put down.Politiken