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Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes - (Essais) by Adrienne Gruber (Paperback)

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  • Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use one's body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child.
  • About the Author: ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon.
  • 172 Pages
  • Family + Relationships, Parenting
  • Series Name: Essais

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Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.

Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use one's body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child. Each piece peers into the seemingly mundane to show us the mortal and emotional consequences of maternal bonds, placing experiences of "being a mom" within broader contexts--historical, literary, biological, and psychological--to speak to the ugly realities of parenthood often omitted from mainstream conversations.

Ultimately, these deeply moving, graceful essays force us to consider how close we are to death, even in the most average of moments, and how beauty is a necessary celebration amidst the chaos of being alive.



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"Honest, tender, and firmly rooted in the body and its connection to the natural world, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a deep, anguished howl in the dark, a love letter to a complex family, and a careful catalogue of the things we pass on, and the things we must carry on our own." --Amy Jones, author of Pebble & Dove



"In questioning her own body, mind, and mothering, breaking it apart, picking at it like a scab until it bleeds out onto the page, Gruber so vividly and profoundly describes the permanent imprint of motherhood on her person. Her use of language, literary devices, and visual imagery makes for an unsettling visceral reading." --Rita Barone



"The essays in this book, like Gruber's articulation of the chimera, reveal a matrilineal narrative of split flesh, eyeballs, sour milk, creepy puppets, blood, illnesses, and grief that leave the nerves exposed. Gruber writes with the precision of a scalpel, revealing with great dexterity, care, and fierceness a beast that lives across lives and stories." --Elizabeth Ross, author of After Birth




About the Author



ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionnettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the Antigonish Review's 2015 Great Blue Heron poetry contest and SubTerrain's 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in Event's 2020 creative nonfiction contest, and was the runner up in SubTerrain's 2023 creative nonfiction contest. Both her poetry and nonfiction have been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012, Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.03 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 172
Genre: Family + Relationships
Sub-Genre: Parenting
Series Title: Essais
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Theme: Motherhood
Format: Paperback
Author: Adrienne Gruber
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2024
TCIN: 1004182393
UPC: 9781771669030
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-7181
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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