Olga Ravn's Novel of Parenting and Its Discontents
Briefly

The baby 'is ruthless,' Winnicott wrote, and 'treats her as scum, an unpaid servant, a slave.... He is suspicious, refuses her good food, and makes her doubt herself.'
In diary entry after diary entry, Anna meticulously records her sense of detachment from the child, 'the anger and resolve,' Ravn writes, 'that hid on the other side of the child's cries.'
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