Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. 'Unflinchingly focused on life and death, love and loss, Sight is a densely packed collection of clearly articulated insights on the struggle to bridge the gaps between ourselves and those to whom we yearn to be close, our efforts to define and take full measure of ourselves. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. 'With visceral, elegantly wrought truths of life and loss, this is an exciting companion to Sheila Heti's recent Motherhood (2018).' - Booklist 'Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding one's balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass' penetrating vision will surely expand theirs.' - NPR In Jessie Greengrass dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass penetrating vision will surely expand theirs. the novel as a whole exudes a strange consoling power.' - The New Yorker Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding ones balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery.

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