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Television for Women
- Author
- Danit Brown
- Narrator
- Kelli Tager
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 November 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
For fans of Nightbitch, a darkly humorous debut novel asks what happens when motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be …
Estie isn’t sure she likes being eight months pregnant. She isn’t even sure she likes her husband anymore, especially after he hid that he’s been fired from his job. Hello parenthood! Goodbye life as Estie imagined it! Now, she’s stranded and bloated and alone. Her cat is not a people person, and on top of it all, her best friend has been ignoring her calls ever since Estie told her about the baby.
After Estie gives birth, she begins to suspect that all the stories she’s been told about motherhood might not be true. Having a child does not “complete” her. And that mythical connection with her baby? Well, she’s still waiting. In fact, Estie fears she is destined to end up like her own mother—divorced and crying in the bathroom while her daughter stands outside the door and wonders if she’s okay.
Startlingly honest and unsentimental, Television for Women explores the realities of life postpartum, the demands children make on women’s identities and relationships—and the desperate lengths someone might go to in order to reclaim the person she once was.
Critics Review
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"A post-partum page-turner. Television For Women is an intimate examination of female friendship, motherhood, longing and regret, all told with wonderfully dark humor. A brutal and delightful read.”
Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author
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“I can think of no other novel that depicts the first months of parenthood and its disillusionments so honestly and with so much humor and pathos and clarity. An engrossing, hilarious read.”
Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author
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“Rarely have I felt so seen by a depiction of early motherhood, of the maternal mental load, of the cataclysmic changes women undergo when an infant enters their lives. I loved it.”
Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age
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“A sheer pleasure of a novel, written with all the gruesome grace and grit of a trusted friend with whom you can be completely, unselfconsciously honest. What a rare and precious thing in life, let alone literature.”
Elisa Albert, author of Book of Dahlia
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“It’s a maternity thriller: impossible to put down because of the pitch perfect prose and the feeling you get that someone out there totally understands you, that as bad as everything is, it’s all going to somehow be miraculously okay.”
Thisbe Nissen, author of Osprey Island
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“If there is a canon for writing about postpartum depression, I would like to nominate Danit Brown’s Television For Women.”
Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air
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Details
- Author
- Danit Brown
- Narrator
- Kelli Tager
- Duration
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9798228627802
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
For fans of Nightbitch, a darkly humorous debut novel asks what happens when motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be …Estie isn’t sure she likes being eight months pregnant. She isn’t even sure she likes her husband anymore, especially after he hid that he’s been fired from his job. Hello parenthood! Goodbye life as Estie imagined it! Now, she’s stranded and bloated and alone. Her cat is not a people person, and on top of it all, her best friend has been ignoring her calls ever since Estie told her about the baby. After Estie gives birth, she begins to suspect that all the stories she’s been told about motherhood might not be true. Having a child does not “complete” her. And that mythical connection with her baby? Well, she’s still waiting. In fact, Estie fears she is destined to end up like her own mother—divorced and crying in the bathroom while her daughter stands outside the door and wonders if she’s okay. Startlingly honest and unsentimental, Television for Women explores the realities of life postpartum, the demands children make on women’s identities and relationships—and the desperate lengths someone might go to in order to reclaim the person she once was.
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