Quotidian
Quotidian by Mary Wilkinson, published by Reflex Press in 2023, is a literary work that explores the complexities of a woman’s life through a series of vignettes. The nameless female narrator revisits the rooms of her past, grappling with feelings of discontent as a mother, wife, and homemaker. This intimate narrative delves into her repressed disappointments, desires, and fears, painting a picture of her seemingly ordinary life while highlighting her growing estrangement from her spouse and her invisible friend, Miss C.
Readers will find a poignant examination of the narrator’s struggles as her life spirals into chaos, leading her to briefly entertain a sham flirtation before an unexpected connection with a homeless musician offers a glimmer of hope. The book presents themes of self-excavation and the search for meaning within the mundane, inviting readers to reflect on the intricacies of women’s fiction and the literary aspects of everyday experiences. With 190 pages, this edition is available in English and measures 7.81 inches in height and 5.06 inches in length.
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Through a series of vignettes, the nameless female narrator of Quotidian revisits the rooms of her past to reconcile the malcontent she experiences as a mother, wife and homemaker. Unearthing repressed disappointments, desires, fears and expectations, she begins piecing together, in an intimate and honest narrative, her perceived ordinary, inconsequential life. In doing so, she becomes increasingly estranged from her spouse and her invisible friend, Miss C. When her life begins to spiral into free fall, the narrator, despite struggling to maintain normalcy, toys briefly with a sham flirtation before salvation arrives in the unlikely form of a homeless musician. Praise for Quotidian
‘The rooms the woman narrator of Quotidian occupies are varied: menacing, lonely, melancholic, and sensuous. In stark, tender, concise, and beautiful prose, we witness an originally told, gripping self-excavation.’
—Nuala O’Connor, author of Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce
‘Intriguing, textured and imaginative, with sentences as beautiful as strings of polished beads.’
—Martina Devlin, author of Edith: A Novel
‘An original, scrolling mosaic of a novel in which the beautiful and dangerous details of a lived life are carefully laid before the reader.’
—Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones
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