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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This book made me laugh and cry. It reads like a thriller and a love song. It’s about being crushed and rising strong.” - Cheryl Strayed “The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking Chelsea Bieker as a major fiction talent. Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, Clove (if that is really her name) focuses on finding the right supplement, the right gratitude meditation. But when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun. As we race between her precarious present-day life in Portland, Oregon and her childhood in a Waikiki high-rise with her mother and father, Clove is forced to finally unravel the defining day of her life. How did she survive that day, and what will it take to end the cycle of violence? Will the truth undo her, or could it ultimately save her? “[Bieker’s] writing is raw, breathlessly confessional, brilliant in its depiction of the long shadows cast by domestic violence, the constant tension carried by survivors.” – The New York Times Book Review Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (September 3, 2024)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316573299


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 90


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.35 x 1.13 x 9.55 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #35,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #739 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #2,172 in Literary Fiction (Books) #2,516 in Suspense Thrillers


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    • Perfect Book Club Read
Review Image by Jenny S. Jenny S.
Whoa! This book is a slow burn that increases to a speed that left me breathless. Turning the pages as fast as possible, small pieces of paper floating through the air around me. Settling into every crack and crevice, my mind spinning as fast as it could go. The characters of this book are incredible. They are all linked by threads. Becoming trapped and knotted with others. As the years have passed, each knot becoming tighter, each character struggling just a bit more, until it is all too much, and the threads that have been holding the past at bay, breaks. Clove has an amazing life. A husband that is calm and patient, never raises his voice. Always there for comfort. They have two adorable children, who want for nothing, and want everything. Clove knows that as the mother she needs to care for her children. Never raising her voice, they can only eat the healthiest foods, she hovers knowing that something could happen at any moment. Of course, Clove is like this. She escaped the abusive confines of her childhood when she was still a teenager. Running from the tragedy that took place in their apartment building. She witnessed her father beat her mother. Each beating a little worse. Each beating a step toward the end. The final hit that would kill her mother. In her own life Clove has set up strict rules, so her father cannot creep through her an infect her children. This carefully constructed life comes crashing down the day she receives a letter from her mother addressed prison. Asking for help, she wants to be free. This cannot happen. Clove has told everyone in her life that her parents both died in a car accident. Her father fell to his death from the 33rd floor of their apartment building. From this moment on Clove is on damage control and begins to spiral dangerously out of control. She cannot help her mother under any circumstances. She cannot have this infect her family. This is one intense, heart wrenching read. It made my blood boil, my eyes stream, and my hands clench. How can a man do this to his family? This book gives you an inside picture into the trauma that some families experience day in and day out. To get out from under his thumb you must have tremendous strength and bravery to do so. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024 by Jenny S. Jenny S.
    • unputdownable!
Amazingly written, this story has a lot of heart and thrilling psychological suspense. I couldn’t put it down! Highly recommend.
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2024 by Jamie Katoff
    • hmmm maybe
There are holes in this story. Parts seem far fetched. Parts that don’t connect. Parts that aren’t explained. They are not holes that make you think or wonder but holes that made me feel like the author slapped something in to get to the next Jerry Springer event. The story is sort of a collection of everything Jerry Springer. This made some of the story very exciting and hard to put down. As I read, I wondered what would happen but also where the story was going. The message of the story is important, SO important. It’s great that the author addresses abuse and how legally it has started to change over the generations. However to imply that #metoo would save the characters was just too simple. This issue is way more complex. Also the book should have been called Mad Woman bc as one word, it makes it seem like she is the problem. Madwoman is actually defeating the author’s seeming purpose in bringing further light on abuse. I don’t think I’d recommend this book, other than to someone who enjoys a good Jerry Springer episode. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2024 by APL
    • Excellent book about motherhood, the long shadow of abuse, and breaking the cycle.
I was so grateful to get an advanced copy of Madwoman thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company. This was a book that worked on many levels. On the one hand, you have a story of a main character who is fighting for her life, trying to escape her past. She exhausts herself in an effort to keep up appearances and catch up with ordinary skills she finds herself lacking while also dealing with unresolved traumas from her childhood. This book is also a narrative about mothers, about the effects mothers have on their children (good or bad,) the lengths mothers will go to to protect their children, (rational and irrational,) and the how difficult it is for men and women to break cycles of family dysfunction and violence. The prose was poignant; this book was very emotional. The scenes of abuse were not gratuitous but put you in the scene and in the mental and physical state the characters experienced. The journey the main character takes to try to build her own life is well laid out and rings true. There were some parts about the way the story concludes that felt a little too tidily wrapped up, albeit perhaps fitting for 2024. However, this will remain a memorable book for me; Bieker was working on many levels, and I think she succeeded. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024 by D. Karras
    • read this book
Excellent read. Doesn’t go where you think it will. Ends with a beautiful story of Moms and Daughters. Loved it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024 by The Donleys
    • Gripping emotional suspense!
This novel covers the cycles of domestic abuse and might be a triggering read for some but it’s a very worthy read. Exploring many of the underlying issues and effects of the traumatic, harrowing domestic violence experienced by the main character and her secrets to cover it up, I felt many emotions. Motherhood, murder, secrets, soul friendships, ultimatums, and a revealing twist make for a page turning read. RECOMMENDED ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024 by Suspense & Thriller Lover
    • Want to read it AGAIN, this time more slowly.
This book is simply fabulous. I had to try to ration myself to a few chapters each night, so as not to “read it up” too fast. Now I want to go back and read it again more slowly, so I can more fully experience and savor every tantalizing word and phrase. Thank you, Chelsea Bieker !!
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2024 by Kitty Whitehurst
    • Raw in a good way
I want to be upfront and say I didn’t care too much for the plot. I was ambivalent towards the twists and it didn’t feel like a thriller to me. I wouldn’t call it a page turner. But what I did absolutely love was the frank discussions of DV/IPV, motherhood, and women in a patriarchal society. Bieker is not afraid to say what she wants to say. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024 by Amazon Customer

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