Little Labours

A baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, as though she came from another world. Suddenly, the world seemed ridiculously and suspiciously laden with meaning. But Galchen had never been interested in babies, or in mothers. Now everything seemed related to them, so she wanted to write about other things. The result is Little Labours, a miscellany about babies in art (with wrongly shaped heads), babies in literature (often monstrous), the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby, the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts, and Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzilla. It’s an odd and tender world of wonder.

Paperback: 144 Pages

Language: English

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, Hardcover, & Paperback