The Need av Helen Phillips

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<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2019 </b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> 2019 Notable Book</b><b><br>2019 BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Oprah Magazine</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>Vulture</i>, and <i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br></b><br><b><i>''The Need</i> is a profound meditation on the nature of reality, a fearless examination of parenthood, and also somehow a thriller. This is an extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers'' Emily St. John Mandel</b><br><i><br>She crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm, the child in her left. <br>There were footsteps in the other room...<br><br></i>Molly is exhausted, anxious, losing her grip on reality. Her husband is away and she is running between her children and her job, where things are unravelling. She¿s a paleobotanist, working at a fossil quarry, and has recently unearthed artefacts that defy understanding; the coke bottle with the le