Maddie Mortimer

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is about a family coming to terms with the unthinkable: the death of a mother. Playful and funny, profound and heart-breaking, this is a daring debut about motherhood, anatomy, language and the darkness within us all.

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

When I picked it up it looked like a book I wanted to write. It turns out it wasn't that.

It was an outline of a different real-life-scenario outcome that I wanted to be prepared for in case life pulled a trick again. Nothing prepares except the knowledge whispered by ghosts. I still believe that. Should I know better?

No, I'm beginning to be fine with 'naive'. 

Dora Tominic

Disclaimer: this is not a review.

Why did I pick this book? 

When I picked it up it looked like a book I wanted to write. It turns out it wasn't that.

It was an outline of a different real-life-scenario outcome that I wanted to be prepared for in case life pulled a trick again. Nothing prepares except the knowledge whispered by ghosts. I still believe that. Should I know better?

No, I'm beginning to be fine with 'naive'. 

Liked it for the ingenuity but it was incredibly difficult to follow 

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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