Normal Women - Ainslie Hogarth

Fiction

Rating: 7/10

Dani needs a distraction. Trying her hand at being a stay-at-home mom to her daughter Lotte is not the deeply fulfilling experience she had planned on. She is constantly overwhelmed with thoughts of her husband dropping dead. Not because she hates him, not yet anyway, but because if he dies, they will be left destitute.

Then she discovers the Temple. Ostensibly a yoga center but possibly a house of ill repute, Dani might have found a side hustle she is good at. Only time will tell.

Hogarth has proved herself a master at writing dark and unsettling satiric fiction that will give pause to our thinking, whether we are prepared for it or not.

My thanks to NetGalley, Vintage-Anchor publishers and the author for the advanced readers copy.

Book Pairing(s): Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth, Rouge by Mona Awad, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh