![]() ![]() Your wife slips out of the room and her son's face follows robotically. ![]() And then you all stop and lean toward one another and shout some‑ thing in unison, some word, perfectly timed, and then you all move again-this is a song you know well. The Push is a tour de force you will listen in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed. She sways over to the tree and adjusts a string of lights that isn't sitting quite right. ![]() 26 Reviewed by Maureen Corrigan Advertisement The new year’s first blockbuster novel is The Push, by Ashley Audrain, a psychological suspense tale about a mother’s fears that her preschool-age daughter may be a psycho killer. ![]() Your daughter reaches up for Daddy's kiss and your wife holds your drink for you. The Push By Ashley Audrain Pamela Dorman Books. You lift a drink, Scotch, and sip it once, twice, and slink from the record like it's a sleeping baby. The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed. The girl jumps up and your wife, she sweeps up the boy, and they spin. You're fiddling with the record player at the back of the room and your wife is speaking to you, but you hold up a finger-you've almost got it. The children are in matching plaid, sitting on the leather ottoman as your wife takes their picture with her phone. ![]()
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