Mothers, Fathers, and Others (Export)

Man Booker-longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect in her most intimate and probing collection of essays yet. Hustvedt moves effortlessly between stones of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, including Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Louise Bourgeois, to the broader meaning of the maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothe