Join Anna Hogeland to discuss “The Long Answer.”
BOOK DISCUSSION DETAILS
8/10/2023 at 7:00 PM
P AND T KNITWEAR CO
180 ORCHARD ST
NEW YORK, NY 10002-1403
About the Author:
Anna Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine. She lives in Vermont.
About the Book:
A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna’s own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in.
The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept, and secrets shared. Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing, it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief, and the ways that women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and infertility.
