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Delicate Condition [Book] Goodreads Douban
author: Danielle Valentine publishing house: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023 - 8
<b><i>The Push</i> meets <i>The Silent Patient</i> in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens—while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says.</b><br /><br />Anna Alcott is desperate to be pregnant. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. And even when she finally manages to get pregnant, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone's playing a twisted game with her.<br /><br />When the increasingly cryptic threats drive her out of her Brooklyn brownstone and into hiding in the cold, gray ghost town that is the Hamptons in the depths of winter, Anna is almost at the end of her rope.<br /><br />Then her doctor tells her she's had a miscarriage—except Anna's convinced she's still pregnant, despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. Could it be that her mind is playing tricks on her? Or is something more sinister at play? As her symptoms become ever more horrifying and the sense of danger ever more present, Anna can't help but wonder what exactly she's carrying inside of her...and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong.

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很微妙的一本书,本身设置的悬疑和恐怖应该在于孩子流产与否以及孕期的幻觉,然而阅读过程中的感觉,实际上这些的带来的恐怖都比不上周围形形色色的人对她的、或有意或系统性的dismissing和gaslighting,这种无论说什么都不会被当真的无力感和窒息感,无论有多痛苦,只能得到“吃片泰诺或者阿斯匹林“的建议身体上的各种变化都被医疗系统理所当然地不了解,仿佛管理孕期的身体完全是她一个人的责任,她的一切担忧只会被她老公的一句“冷静点"轻松驳回,时不时会觉得,虽然有魔幻虚构,但又怎么不是许多怀孕女性的真实体验呢?

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