the ongoing and ever-unfinished coming into being of a person. Sentences move with extraordinary cadence towards devastatingly bathetic or utterly heartbreaking conclusions. Nadja Spielgelman, author of I’m Supposed to Protect You From All ThisĮxceptional… The prose is unsentimental, measured, breathtaking in its elegance, but never precious or mannered…. I wanted to read this book as slowly as I could, underlining every sentence, inhaling it in small sips – and to press it into the hands of every woman, mother, and daughter I know.
She folds and unfolds time until only a pure, sifted truth about loving and losing remains. Greengrass slits apart gossamer strands of emotion with the precision of a scientist, then weaves them with wild elegance into a tapestry that held me rapt. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of the X-ray Sigmund Freud’s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. 'A masterpiece of restraint and intensity.' – Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
' Elegant and intelligent, troubling and serious… exquisitely well-assembled.’ – Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 'A brilliant and meditative piece of art.’ – Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
Greengrass is an important new voice in fiction.’ – Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
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