Synopsis
'Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.' - Daily Mirror
Darkly witty, deeply moving – Jackie Polzin's Brood is a startlingly original debut novel about motherhood, marriage and grief, full of sorrow, joy and unrelenting hope.
Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the...
Details
28 April 2022240 pages
9781529055252Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Darkly funny and poignant.
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.Daily Mirror
Acutely observed . . . and the chickens provide metaphors for the world at large.New Yorker
Some novelists floodlight the world; Polzin uses a penlight to beautifully illuminate the least glamorous corners of a quotidian life . . . Her observation of the fragility and loveliness of daily life is so sharp and her commentary so droll, trenchant and precise, that the modest world she describes becomes almost numinous.Washington Post
