"As soon as the baby arrives all of her choices disappear"

A conversation about plot, postpartum fiction, and writing leaky tits with Szilvia Molnar, author of the novel The Nursery

Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel, The Nursery, is a little bit gothic, a little bit speculative. The visceral abjection of the postpartum period is palpable and textured, as we follow a new mother who makes an unlikely friend and tries to re-collect herself after giving birth and meeting the edges of her own madness.

One of the most radical elements of the b…