The Chouette audiobook features original music composed and performed by Claire Oshetsky?s daughter, Patricia Taxxon. When she discovers that her husband is on an obsessive and increasingly dangerous quest to find a ?cure? for their daughter, Tiny must decide whether Chouette should be raised to fit in or to be herself?and learn what it truly means to be a mother.Īrresting, darkly funny, and unsettling, Chouette is a brilliant exploration of ambition, sacrifice, perceptions of ability, and the ferocity of motherly love. Even in those times when Chouette?s behaviors grow violent and strange, Tiny?s loving commitment to her daughter is unwavering. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter?s needs. ?You think this baby is going to be like you, but it?s not like you at all,? she warns him. This text refers to the audioCD edition. Chouette draws on her own experiences of motherhood. But Tiny knows her child will be different. Claire Oshetsky is a novelist whose writing has appeared in Salon, Wired, and the New York Times. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Her husband is beyond excited, remembering golden moments from his own perfect childhood.

'Claire Oshetsky?s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying.' ?Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindĪn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis 'Chouette is deeply felt, linguistically gorgeous, and wonderfully disorienting up to its final breathless pagesa stunning meditation on motherhood and identity truly unlike anything I've ever read before.' - Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had 'Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying. When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughters needs.

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