The Push :Mother nurturer vs. nature

A page-turning psychological thriller about a woman whose parenting experience is precisely what she dreaded when she was a child.

Motherhood is no different. We all expect to have, and to marry, and to be, good mothers.

"The Push," Ashley Audrain's psychological thriller debut novel, is about mother nurturer vs. kid nature. It follows a mother's journey as she worries her preschool-aged kid is a psycho killer.

Blythe Connor is naturally apprehensive about being a mom. After years of abuse, her mother abandoned her when she was 11 years old. Blythe's matrilineal past and generational traumas are revealed in flashbacks throughout "The Push," which date back to her grandmother, Etta, in the 1930s.

Marriages can float apart. Sometimes we don’t notice how far we’ve gone until all of a sudden, the water meets the horizon and it feels like we’ll never make it back.” She paused and looked only at me. “Listen for each other’s heartbeat in the current. You’ll always find each other. And then you’ll always find the shore.

Despite the terrible pain of childhood and recovery, a girl falls in love with a perfect guy. Blythe is the primary character. She comes from a long line of moms who failed miserably. Blythe and Fox fall in love immediately, marry, and settle into a pattern of marital happiness, either due to depression or a lack of maternal instinct, or a combination of both. That is, until Fox expresses his desire for a kid. Blythe is unsure if parenting is suitable for her because of her own mother's frigid upbringing. Regardless, Violet, her own daughter, is born to her.

Violet seems to get along better with Fox than with Blythe, and Blythe begins to suspect Violet, her daughter, is suffering from a mental illness. As she matures, she becomes cunning, manipulative, and frigid. From the beginning, their relationship is strained. Since Violet's birth, to be precise. Fox rejects her worries and speculates that Blythe is fabricating events. This is a dilemma for Blythe, who is beginning to doubt her own sanity.

When a youngster standing near Violet on a play structure fall to his death, Blythe's concerns are verified. Fox, on the other hand, who is very protective of their kid, isn't having it.

When their baby Sam is born, everything changes. Blythe has the beautiful connection and sense of love she'd always dreamed with her kid, and all of her mother instincts have kicked in. Violet also seemed to adore her little brother. However, things do not stay the same and cheerful when your child has psycho killer tendencies. When Sam dies, and Blythe vows to find out the truth, everything changes dramatically.

Blythe, people might think bad things about you that aren't true. The only thing that matters is what you believe about yourself

As one lengthy message from Blythe to Fox, the novel is written nearly completely in the second person. It's a post-mortem for their relationship as well as a wake-up call for him to address Violet's troubling conduct.

In a thought-provoking fashion, Audrain's story brilliantly examines the subject of nature vs. nurture. Putting readers inside mom Blythe's head is a brilliant method that helps us to sense her worry and sadness at her icy connection with Violet. It's tough to put the book down since the writing is so good. In reality, reading The Push is comparable to driving past a car accident. It's difficult to observe, but it's also difficult to turn away.

The Push is not an easy book by any means, and with each passing page, my attitude darkened even more. I wouldn't put it in the hands of someone seeking for a book to spend the evening with but I wouldn't hesitate to put it in the hands of someone looking for a gripping read