My Work

Olga Ravn

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Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravn’s book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing that’s hard to put down.

— Politiken

From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood

Available September 5, 2023

My Work

Fictionby Olga Ravn

With a contribution by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write.

My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms—fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters—to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.

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ISBN
9780811234719
Price US
18.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
416

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9780811234726
Portrait of Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn

Contemporary Danish novelist and poet.

Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravn’s book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing that’s hard to put down.

— Politiken