The Nursery

Praise

“A radical novel…Szilvia Molnar’s astounding debut demonstrates that the intricate workings of the female mind deserve our most reverent attention. I’m obsessed with this book.”  
—Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers

“An essential, singular contribution to the literature of mothering as a human, embodied, fundamentally existential experience.”
—Merritt Tierce, author of Love me Back

“The Nursery dares to put a woman’s body at the center of the story, a book as frightening as it is profound, as gory as it’s beautiful, a reeling vision of postpartum experience unlike any.” 
—Louisa Hall, author of Speak and Trinity

“With unsparing, hypnotic, and fearless prose, Szilvia Molnar captures the texture, rhythms, and agonies of the post-partum body and mind. The Nursery is a work of devastating elegance.”
—Patrick Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
 
“A concise, powerful novel on bringing art and life into the world, by a beautiful prose stylist. Molnar’s precision and phenomenal ear for language gives us new words for the oldest experience.”
—Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

“Szilvia Molnar’s portrait of the postpartum world is ruthlessly true and exacting. It was electrifying to experience the days of early motherhood through Molnar’s razor sharp realism and wit.”
—Rita Bullwinkel, author of Belly Up: Stories

“Szilvia Molnar’s debut is a fierce psychological novel…The Nursery is powered by the shape of Molnar’s imagination but also the brutal truth of personal experience.”
—Jessica Anthony, author of Enter the Aardvark