Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber
Today, we’re celebrating the release of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber.
Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber! This marks Gruber’s third Book*hug Press title—in addition to her two stunning poetry collections, Q&A and Buoyancy Control—and we’re delighted that 49th Shelf and CBC Books have named it a “Most-Anticipated” spring 2024 nonfiction title. Gruber brings her candid, visceral, and dynamic poetic sensibilities to these essays to offer some welcome if brutal truths on mothering, birthing, mental health, and family. This work is ideal for fans of Leslie Jamieson, Sarah Manguso, and Heather Christie.
Gruber has shared this video to introduce readers to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes in anticipation of the book’s release:
Additionally, enjoy this latest episode of Bookspo, Kerry Clare’s new podcast, featuring Adrienne Gruber!
Praise for Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes
“In this stunning and deeply personal collection of essays, Adrienne Gruber explores modern motherhood in all its beautiful, terrifying, confusing, grotesque, joyful, sometimes mundane, sometimes ridiculous glory, in a way that is both intimate and yet wholly universal… Honest, tender, and firmly rooted in the body and its connection to the natural world, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a deep, anguished howl in the dark, a love letter to a complex family, and a careful catalogue of the things we pass on, and the things we must carry on our own.”
—Amy Jones, author of Pebble & Dove
“The essays in this book, like Gruber’s articulation of the chimera, reveal a matrilineal narrative of split flesh, eyeballs, sour milk, creepy puppets, blood, illnesses, and grief that leave the nerves exposed. Gruber writes with the precision of a scalpel, revealing with great dexterity, care, and fierceness a beast that lives across lives and stories.”
—Elizabeth Ross, author of After Birth
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That’s all for now, dear reader. Please join us again in wishing a very Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber. Available now from our online shop or from your local independent bookstore. Happy reading!
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