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Sarah Bruni

Mass Mothering

Cover: Mass Mothering - Sarah Bruni

Sarah Bruni

Mass Mothering

2026, pp. 255, Paperback
ISBN: 9781787706439
Region: United States
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The book

A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the virtue of testimony

A. is an amateur translator. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, her nights are spent on the dance floor. There, she encounters N. Among N.’s meagre possessions, A. comes across a book about an unnamed town of disappearing boys. The book, Field Notes, documents a community of mothers who assemble to mourn their missing sons.

When a near-assault stuns A. out of her inertia, she takes off for the city where Field Notes was written in search of its author and the end of the story. But, A’s digging leads her instead to the traces of a murdered poet, and a legacy that will intersect unexpectedly and pivotally with her own life.

Poignant and profoundly humane, Mass Mothering is a story of the mutuality of grief, the shattering force of a mother’s love, and the aftershocks of violence in a globalised era.

The author

Sarah Bruni
Sarah Bruni is the author of The Night Gwen Stacy Died. A graduate of the MFA programme at Washington University in St. Louis with a master's in Latin American studies from Tulane University, she has taught English and writing classes in New York and St. Louis and volunteered as a writer-in-schools in San Francisco and Montevideo, Uruguay. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, and her translations have appeared in The Buenos Aires Review. She lives in Chicago with her family.

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