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Afterbirth - by Emma Cleary (Hardcover)

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  • An unsettling, hypnotic descent into the visceral heart of "mommy horror," Afterbirth is a story of fractured sisterhood, aching hunger, and irrevocable transformation - reverberating with the echoes of classic horror cinema.In the wake of a fraught and ill-omened romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy, who is preparing to undergo reproductive surgery.
  • Author(s): Emma Cleary
  • 416 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Horror

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An unsettling, hypnotic descent into the visceral heart of "mommy horror," Afterbirth is a story of fractured sisterhood, aching hunger, and irrevocable transformation - reverberating with the echoes of classic horror cinema.

In the wake of a fraught and ill-omened romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy, who is preparing to undergo reproductive surgery. But Izzy's rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an ominous figure known only as Medusa, offers little of the refuge the sisters need.

Seeking solace in the horror movies her ex-girlfriend loved, Brooke soon finds traces of horror bleeding from the screen into their lives. Old wounds reopen and new tensions surface. When Brooke begins to exhibit strange symptoms of her own, the line between self and sister blurs, and their concern for each other twists into a tangled obsession.

Eerie, threaded with yearning, and startlingly original, Emma Cleary's haunting literary debut explores loneliness, motherhood, and the body's threatened autonomy. The novel blooms with the dark desires we suppress or surrender to - until only one question remains: who, or what, will survive when all unravels?



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"Deeply Unsettling, a masterpiece of literary horror." -- Julia Armfield, author of Private Rights and Our Wives Under the Sea


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.19 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.43 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Horror
Publisher: Harper
Format: Hardcover
Author: Emma Cleary
Language: English
Street Date: March 24, 2026
TCIN: 1004856091
UPC: 9780063420946
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-5825
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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