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Human Blues

A singer-songwriter faces questions of fame and fertility in Elisa Albert‘s novel Human Blues, an emotional, life-affirming howl into a wild world.

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Review of ‘Human Blues’

Writers will tell you that their books are like their children: They nurture them, struggle with them and orient their whole lives around them. Elisa Albert plays with this trite analogy between artistic creation and parenthood in her third novel, Human Blues, the energetic tale of a singer-songwriter who wants to get pregnant but can't. 

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