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Sight by Jessie Greengrass is an absorbing and sharply written book about a mother whose fear made it challenging for her to decide on having a child/5(79). Sight is the first novel by Jessie Greengrass. I read this by virtue of its long listing for the Baileys Womens Prize for Literature, It has a really good chance of winning (deservedly in my opinion). The pregnant narrator is a deep thinker, and a serious, reflective person/5. Buy a cheap copy of Sight book by Jessie Greengrass. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A dazzling obsessive entry in a burgeoning genre. Unusual and absorbing the novel as a whole exudes a strange Free Shipping on all orders over $

Jessie Greengrass's 'Sight'. Jessie Greengrass's debut story collection caught my eye with its delightfully extravagant title, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, but its pleasures were more austere than baroque - and deservedly made it a multiple award-winner. The stories broadly divided into two. Sight by Jessie Greengrass, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Sight by Jessie Greengrass review - a dark awakening. This intelligent debut focuses on a woman struggling to make sense of her mother's death and her daughter's progress.

Sight, Jessie Greengrass’s debut novel, falls into this latter category Sight is a bookish young woman’s exploration of her shifting sense of self as it is funnelled into motherhood. We follow the first-person narrator from her early twenties when she loses her own mother, through meeting her partner, agonising over whether to have a baby with him, then having the baby. Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – a stunning debut novel about minds and bodies This poised meditation on medicine, pregnancy and parenthood considers what we can know of our bodies, our. Quotes by Jessie Greengrass “Growing up, I said, is a solitary process of disentanglement from those who made us and the reality of it cannot be avoided but only, perhaps, deferred” ― Jessie Greengrass, Sight.