The Need Audiobook (Free)

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“A profound deep breathing on the type of reality…An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work in one of our most gifted and interesting authors.” —EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, writer of Station Eleven

“Phillips is, as about THE NECESSITY always, doing something simultaneously wildly her own and utterly primal. Maybe it doesn’t surprise me which the strangest reserve I’ve read about motherhood is also the best, nonetheless it will excitement me.” —REBECCA MAKKAI, author of THE FANTASTIC Believers

“Spellbinding…both unsettling and amazing. Phillips manifests the surreal, terrifying, and visceral connection with motherhood.” —DANA SPIOTTA, author of Innocents and Others

“Like parenthood itself, THE NECESSITY is frightening and maddening and full of dark comedy… Everyday life, here, is both tedious and fascinating, grotesque and lovely, familiar and tremendously strange.” —THE BRAND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (EDITORS’ CHOICE)

“[A]n extraordinary article writer at her electrifying best.” —Web publishers Regular (STARRED REVIEW)

When Molly, home by itself with her two small children, hears footsteps in the living area, she attempts to convince herself it’s the rest deprivation. She’s been hearing issues nowadays. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what moms do, she knows.

But the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.

All of a sudden Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who has learned far too very much approximately her and her family members. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit gap where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy as well as the dread; the languor as well as the ferocity; the banality as well as the transcendence as the reserve hurtles toward a mind-bending summary.

In The Need, Helen Phillips has generated a subversive, speculative thriller that involves life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. Helen Phillips has been anointed among the most interesting fiction writers operating today, and The Need is normally a glorious special event from the bizarre and gorgeous nature of our everyday lives.