Brood

Description

‘Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.’ – Daily Mirror

‘Full of surprise, humor, grief, and wisdom.’ – Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Darkly witty, deeply moving Jackie Polzin’s Brood is a startlingly original debut novel about motherhood, marriage and grief, full of sorrow, joy and unrelenting hope.

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 challenges that caring for another creature entails and all the while struggling to confront her own recent loss. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined.

Author Information

Jackie Polzin lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and children. Brood is her first novel.