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The Stud Book

door Monica Drake

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A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior at the zoo. She's well versed in the mating habits of captive animals, and at the same time she's desperate to mate, to create sweet little offspring of her own. Georgie is busy with a newborn, while her husband, Humble, finds solace in bourbon and televised violence. Dulcet makes a living stripping down in high school gyms to sell the beauty of sex-ed. Nyla is out to save the world while having trouble saving her own teen daughter, who has discovered the world of drugs and the occult. As these friends and others navigate a space between freedom and intimacy, they realize the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth. A smart, edgy and poignantly funny exploration of the complexities of what parenthood means today, Monica Drake's second novel demonstrates that when it comes to babies, we can learn a lot by considering our place in the animal kingdom.… (meer)

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I guess I find it refreshing to read a book that depicts pregnancy from so many different points of view, most of them miserable. I'd been told it was funny, though, and I can't really agree with that. The characters have stayed with me -- they are vivid, but ultimately unappealing. I don't read a lot of literary fiction any more for just this reason, so perhaps if you're into that kind of thing, this will likely blow your skirt up. (

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jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |

Some parts funny, other parts horribly painful. Scenes from four women's lives in Portland, each a variation on having babies or not. (

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joeydag | Jul 23, 2015 |

I was fortunate enough to get this book at an Adult Bedtime Stories event. I say fortunate because it was not something that I would have normally picked up. But I am so glad I was introduced to it. The wonderful Monica Drake has a dry sense of humor that I find just hysterical, and this book shows it off well. But at the same time, it tears at your heart strings and is such a good portrayal of what it is like to be human. It takes a brilliant writer to create a book that's very much just about the characters and their lives. The particular human experience addressed in this particular story is procreation. Through the lives of several different women, we see the idea/experience of having children from entirely different perspectives. One is desperate to conceive, one has a child and is wondering if motherhood is all it's cracked up to be, another is dealing with (gasp!) a teenager, and another has opted for the furry kind of children instead. All the women are memorable and have stuck with me. Drake is brilliant and it shows. (

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reneenmeland | Apr 30, 2015 |

a wonderful book about Portland, about growing up when you're in your 30s and not growing up. in places it is funny, in other places sad. I want to know what happens to these character in 10 years. (

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michaelbartley | Oct 29, 2014 |

The Stud Book is a brilliantly written and totally engrossing exploration of breeding, mostly among a group of female friends in Portland, interspersed with fascinating details about animal husbandry.

Dark and absurdist in tone, the things that happen to these characters feel like they could really happen. I love it when an author really goes there. Even scenes I found off-putting (like Georgie's husband at the bar while she struggles at home with a newborn) paid off in the end.

Generally, I'm weary of books that bounce between narratives about multiple characters. When you like some characters more than others, it's frustrating to leave them behind for a less interesting storyline. In this book, I got wrapped up in all the characters, eager to see what would happen next.

As a rule, I like novels to have more resolution to their resolution than The Stud Book does. However, I will forgive Drake for this open-endedness because the book was so thought-provoking, I don't mind filling in the blanks with what I think will happen next.

So smartly written. I look forward to reading more from Drake.
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A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior at the zoo. She's well versed in the mating habits of captive animals, and at the same time she's desperate to mate, to create sweet little offspring of her own. Georgie is busy with a newborn, while her husband, Humble, finds solace in bourbon and televised violence. Dulcet makes a living stripping down in high school gyms to sell the beauty of sex-ed. Nyla is out to save the world while having trouble saving her own teen daughter, who has discovered the world of drugs and the occult. As these friends and others navigate a space between freedom and intimacy, they realize the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth. A smart, edgy and poignantly funny exploration of the complexities of what parenthood means today, Monica Drake's second novel demonstrates that when it comes to babies, we can learn a lot by considering our place in the animal kingdom.

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