The Long Answer

A Novel

By: Anna Hogeland

Narrated by: Julia Knippen

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.

Amazing Crossection of Women

Take care if you have experienced pregnancy loss and death but also, revel in the way the author portrays different stories of women and their paths to motherhood. What and when and how and why women become pregnant is fascinating, tragic, gorgeous and terrifying. This is a beautiful study in these feelings.

Powerful, intimate, relevant, important

Anna Hogeland 's novel takes us through the lives of several women whose stories are painful, uplifting, and familiar yet have, until now, remained uncharted territory. An important and rewarding read, now more than ever. Bravo!

Drivel

I am always looking for female centered books but this one has no central plot and changes characters way too fast and has too many. Editor?