SIGHT

In Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of h er own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal re collections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray/ Sigmund Freud's development of psyc hoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna/ and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Si ght is a...[Read more]