In my experience, Elisa Albert was furious before she ever gave birth. Having a baby was just one new way for her to claim victim status.
WP: “By immersing us in Ari’s bottomless need and pain, Albert creates a deeply resonant and empathetic reading experience, even as Ari’s toxicity dares us to care about her. The novel, with its claustrophobic focus on the corrosive workings of Ari’s mind, is exhilarating and exhausting in equal measure. Albert is virtuosic in capturing and maintaining barely concealed fury. In its unremitting coarseness and ferocity, her language takes the sentimental platitudes that all mothers are fed (lies!) and spits them back with purifying fury.”
Rage seems to be the underlying theme of Elisa Albert’s ouevre.
