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Brood: A Novel

By Jackie Polzin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Unabridged — 4 hours, 50 minutes
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By Jackie Polzin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Unabridged — 4 hours, 50 minutes
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Jackie Polzin’s Brood is a powerful debut novel that sets Polzin up as a strong new literary voice and one to watch. The unnamed narrator has thrown herself into taking care of chickens in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy, and while the entire novel is framed around the chickens’ well-being, it is the heartbreaking, small snippets around her miscarriage and its aftermath that are brutally poignant. An honest take on internalized versus externalized pain, Brood is a beautiful novel with real staying power.

An exquisite new literary voice-wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout-depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.

“Full of nuance and humor and strangeness...[Polzin] writes beautifully about everything.” -The New York Times

Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless ch...