“Oh, honey, honey, honey,” my husband says. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” I say. Tiny warns her husband (whose name readers never learn) but he’s too swollen with pride to hear her: When the novel begins, Tiny is in a world of trouble Two weeks after a passionate night with her female owl-lover, Tiny is pregnant. Months later, the surreal landscapes and characters that populate Chouette (Ecco Press, November 2021) haunt my imagination.Ĭhouette unfolds through the eyes of Tiny, a professional cellist who has survived a traumatic childhood to marry into a “stable” middle-class life with her husband in Sacramento. When I learned that Claire Oshetsky had written a dark-fairytale of a debut novel about a woman who gives birth to an owl, I swooped in to pre-order. I adore all raptors, but owls are my favorite birds of prey.
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