But very soon their life changes and everything falls apart, ultimately making Blythe face the harsh truth.Ĭoming back to the themes – The Push is a thriller novel that mostly revolves around motherhood. Later, she gives birth to her son Sam and this time motherhood is everything that she ever wanted. She doesn’t seem normal like other children do.Īs she tries to narrate her experiences to her husband, but her husband simply dismisses them, making Blythe question her own experiences and memory, thus making her an unreliable character in the story. But just when she was in the most nascent and exhausting phase of motherhood, she realizes that there is something wrong with her daughter Violet. While she hoped for all the great things in motherhood but what she got was something else altogether.īlythe Connor wants to be a devoted mother, something that her own mother never was. The Push is a deep and dark psychological drama about a mother who hopes that she will be a very different mother than what she got. To read about a mother who suffered from some kind of nervous illness because of something that happened in the past reminded me so much of Malibu Rising where the mother did not know how to take care of her children anymore and had become a stranger to them. The Push also reminded me a lot of Where the Crawdads Sing whereby a woman is being talked about in the town and shunned because of her diagnosis but not because of her true self.

It is also then that I realized, despite the mixed reviews, that this is one of those books that I will always remember and look back from time to time. There were a lot of emotions that I carried with me throughout my reading of it, and they all broke off violently when I reached the end. But eventually, I pushed all my hesitation away and dived straight into it.Īnd guess what? I loved it and I was able to feel so much by the end of the book. I was questioning whether it will be worth the time.

Initially, I was quite excited to pick this up but then after reading so many mixed reviews about this one, I became hesitant. The Push is one of those books where there is a lot of hype surrounding it, and it is also for that very reason that I decided to give this book a shot. I suppose I wasn’t ready to be invisible yet. I see them walk down the street every day as though they’re ghosts.

“But I was on the cusp of the age when women worry about disappearing to everyone but themselves, blending in with their sensible hair, their practical coats. THEMES: Thriller, Psychological Fiction, Suspense, Domestic Fiction

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