Mass Mothering

<p><strong>A <em>People</em> 'Best Book of February'<br>A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the radical, life-affirming virtue of testimony</strong></p><p>A. is an amateur translator. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, her nights are spent on the dance floor. There, she encounters N. Among N.’s meagre possessions, A. comes across a book about an unnamed town of disappearing boys. The book, <em>Field Notes</em>, documents a community of mothers who assemble to mourn their missing sons. </p><p>When a near-assault stuns A. out of her inertia, she takes off for the city where <em>Field Notes</em> was written in search of its author and the end of the story. But, A’s digging leads her instead to the traces of a murdered poet, and a legacy that will intersect unexpectedly and pivotally with her own life. </p><p>Poignant and profoundly humane, <em>Mass Mothering</em> is a story of the mutuality of grief, the shattering force of a mother’s love, and the aftershocks of violence in a globalised era. </p>