6/11/2023 0 Comments Sight by Jessie Greengrass![]() ![]() She examines her relationship with her mother and her mother’s relationship with her own psychoanalyst mother (the narrator’s maternal grandmother). Sight is chiefly an internal monologue that shifts between past and present as the narrator reflects on her indecision about having her first child, she says “I wanted a child fiercely but couldn’t imagine myself pregnant, or a mother, seeing only how I was now or how I thought I was: singular, centreless, afraid.” Her decision comes in the wake of caring for her mother as she dies from cancer. ![]() ![]() The novel follows her prize-winning and magnificently titled An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It and gives voice to an unnamed female protagonist who is pregnant with her second child, she laments: “it strikes me as extraordinary, now, that we should be so hidden from ourselves, our bodies and our minds so inaccessible, in such large part unchartered but there is a thrill to it, too”. The title of Jessie Greengrass’s Women’s Prize short listed debut novel, Sight is to be taken at its widest interpretation it is essentially about seeing and being seen, what little we understand of ourselves and the incomprehensibility of other people and their lives. ![]()
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