MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHERS by Siri Hustvedt, read by Caitlin Thorburn - audiobook extract

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 3:59 p.m.

b"Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the best-selling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.\\n\\nSiri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience, and the books we turn to during a pandemic.\\n\\nDrawing on family history as well as her own life and experiences, she examines the porousness of borders of all kinds in a masterful intellectual journey that is at once personal and universal. Ultimately, Mothers, Fathers, and Others reminds us that the boundaries we take for granted - between ourselves and others, between art and viewer - are far less stable than we imagine."