📖 peek insideThe Push
by Ashley Audrain
Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, supportive mother she never had. But when her daughter Violet is born, Blythe doesn't experience the immediate connection she expected. As Violet grows, Blythe becomes convinced that something is deeply wrong with her child, though her husband, Fox, dismisses her fears as postpartum paranoia. This chilling exploration of motherhood and inherited trauma forces readers to question the nature of maternal instinct and whether we can ever truly escape the dark shadows of our own family history.
A popular book with millions of readers worldwide.
Notable Quotes
"A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime."
"It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother’s heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother’s blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother’s ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born. . . ."
"We could have counted our problems on the petals of the daisy in my bouquet, but it wouldn’t be long before we were lost in a field of them."
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