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"An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers" (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need,which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is "like nothing you've ever read before...in a good way" (People). When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows.
But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.
Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.
In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. "Brilliant" (Entertainment Weekly), "grotesque and lovely" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice), and "wildly captivating" (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and "showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).… (plus d'informations)
2 stars for awesome concept and moments of brilliance. But the execution and the ... story? Not remotely for me. And to be clear, I *am* a mom of a toddler. So I haven’t “forgotten,” I just don’t think this hits it. Not for me anyway. ( )
great idea, less than riveting execution. There is, however one passage in the book (end of chp 7) that I consider one of the best/scariest moments in written horror: "She relished the unpleasant kiss. She said to Viv, 'Okay, okay, okay- wait, I still don't know where The Why Book is, did you and Erika find it?' She stepped out of the bedroom and walked to the bathroom, just a few steps. If she hadn't been passing through the hall at that exact instant, she would have missed it: the lid of the coffee-table-toy-chest lifting up a centimeter and then immediately, gently, sinking back down."
The pacing of the story up to this exact point is stellar; you truly feel lulled into a sense of casual curiosity which makes the first appearance of "the intruder" all the more terrifying. Unfortunately, while the story seems to hit its stride in the following few chapters, it slowly slopes off and becomes more of a sci-fi meets Single White Female (1992) meditation on the pressures of mother/adult/womanhood which, while I totally respect, isn't really my bag. ( )
Motherhood is even more terrifying than I thought, but this book failed to keep things interesting the whole way through. Might have worked better as a short story for me. ( )
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Statements that happen at the same time
In different places, at different times
In the same place, at different times
In different places from a single score.
--Geoggrey G. O'Brien, "Fidelio
We stood facing each other the way, when you come upon a deer unexpectedly, you both freeze for a moment, mutually startled, and in that exchange there seems to be but one glance, as if you and the other are sharing the same pair of eyes.
--Mary Ruefle, "My Private Property"
Tennyson said that if we could but understand a single flower we might know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he was trying to say that there is nothing, however humble, that does not imply the history of the world and its infinite concatenation of causes and effects.
--Jorge Luis Borges, "The Zahir"
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This book is for my mother, Susan Zimmermann, and for my sister, Katherine Rose Phillips, September 2, 1979 - July 29, 2012
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She crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them.
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But the children were not alarmed, for they were with her, safe, and she bore them onward.
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HTML:***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***
"An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers" (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is "like nothing you've ever read before...in a good way" (People). When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows.
But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.
Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.
In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. "Brilliant" (Entertainment Weekly), "grotesque and lovely" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice), and "wildly captivating" (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and "showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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It grabbed my interest from the beginning but lost me as the story kept on. I get it. But wouldn’t reread it. Little girl is a hoot though. ( )