![]() Yet Tiny’s question to her unborn child - “How could such a thing come to pass between woman and owl?” - echoes with a sense of wonder and possibility. From the very first line we know we’re in an unreal reality. ![]() Right away, Oshetsky asks us to suspend our disbelief. ![]() Through her experience we see motherhood and associated notions of sacrifice, compassion, and belonging upended and redefined. For Tiny is not with child per se - not a human child - but rather an owlet, the offspring of an affair she has with a wild female owl in a dream. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight of Tiny, a woman whose journey through pregnancy and motherhood vies with the most dramatic of Hollywood depictions. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. ![]()
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