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Elisa Albert
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Los Angeles, California, The United States
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Philip Roth, Saul Bellow
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After Birth
— published 2015 — 14 editions |
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The Book of Dahlia
— published 2008 — 12 editions |
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How This Night Is Different: Stories
— published 2006 — 9 editions |
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Freud's Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings
— published 2010 — 6 editions |
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
by Sari Botton (Goodreads Author) , Elisa Albert , Karen E. Bender — published 2013 — 2 editions |
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La Femme de Gilles
by Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Elisa Albert , Faith Evans |
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“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia
“Adrienne Rich had it right. No one gives a crap about motherhood unless they can profit off it. Women are expendable and the work of childbearing, done fully, done consciously, is all-consuming. So who’s gonna write about it if everyone doing it is lost forever within it? You want adventures, you want poetry and art, you want to salon it up over at Gertrude and Alice’s, you’d best leave the messy all-consuming baby stuff to someone else. Birthing and nursing and rocking and distracting and socializing and cooking and washing and gardening and mending: what’s that compared with bullets whizzing overhead, dazzling destructive heroics, headlines, parties,”
― Elisa Albert, After Birth
― Elisa Albert, After Birth
“She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| 21st Century Lite...: The Rooster Prize | 9 | 67 | Apr 28, 2015 08:16AM | |
| The Book Club: Books and Authors in the Media 2015 | 12 | 24 | Jul 24, 2015 04:15AM | |
| Tournament of Books: 2016 - Possible Contenders | 646 | 611 | Dec 14, 2015 03:56PM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: What I read -- January 2016 | 68 | 59 | Feb 16, 2016 11:54PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: Book News | 74 | 194 | Oct 27, 2016 08:35PM |
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