What does it mean to you to set motherhood and environmental disaster in the same space? Another, more general way to ask this question-how do you see creation myths informing the apocalyptic narratives in The End We Start From? Thea Prieto: The End We Start From begins at the very moment of both birth and death. Megan Hunter’s poetry was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and she was a finalist for the Aesthetic Creative Writing Award for her short fiction. John Mandel, and was a 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Award Finalist. A modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of creation and destruction, The End We Start From has been hailed as “beautifully spare, haunting” by Emily St. Horror and fascination surround the young family, the baby thriving and content despite catastrophic upheaval, widespread desperation, and ongoing struggles to survive. As London sinks below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Megan Hunter’s debut novel, The End We Start From (Grove Atlantic, 2017), is a lyrical vision of new motherhood in the midst of environmental fallout. “You often have to be influenced by others to be truly yourself.” (Photo by Alexander James)
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