Brood (Polzin Jackie)(Paperback / softback)

''Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.'' - Daily MirrorDarkly 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 brin
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