The Push | Ashley Audrain

Blythe and Fox meet, fall in love and decide to start a family. When she gives birth to Violet, her first born daughter, Blythe feels like something is... off. There are little things here or there and then a shocking incident on a playground. After their son Sam is born, Blythe is relieved. She loves him like she sees other mothers love their children. Violet seems to come into her own and is loving and dotes on Sam. Until she decides she doesn't want him anymore. Blythe is constantly questioning her reality. Did she really see what she thinks she saw? Is there something wrong with her, or with Violet?

Set between the childhood of Blythe, her children Violet and Sam, her mother Cecilia, and her grandmother Etta, the Push examines ideas about what motherhood is and isn't, and what it should or shouldn't be. We see ideas about Nature vs. Nurture and it makes us question if children can be evil. 

An Alicia pick ⭐⭐⭐✨ 3.5/5 stars! This book was a really quick read, and I couldn't put it down. It is a mystery and a family history. Full of cringe-inducing scenes and with an unreliable narrator, you never know what you're going to see happen next. 

"You know, there's a lot about ourselves that we can't change – it's just the way we're born.  But some parts of us are shaped by what we see. And how we're treated by other people. How we're made to feel."

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