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A review by mandyfish
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
5.0
I am really struck by the book, Chouette, by Claire Oshetsky. It’s about a woman who gives birth to an owl.
For anyone who has a child who doesn’t quite fit in or conform to society’s ideals about how a person should be — it is a riveting and empowering tale.
It is also darkly funny.
I can’t recommend it enough, as long as you can handle something as surreal as having to come to terms with your infant gobbling up mice and killing the neighborhood pets.
This book is a hoot. (Sorry.) And it has given me more appreciation for my own owl-baby and support for allowing her to be who she is.
If you have a neurodivergent owl-baby of any kind, I think you will relate to this book and root for Tiny and her fierce little Chouette.
For anyone who has a child who doesn’t quite fit in or conform to society’s ideals about how a person should be — it is a riveting and empowering tale.
It is also darkly funny.
I can’t recommend it enough, as long as you can handle something as surreal as having to come to terms with your infant gobbling up mice and killing the neighborhood pets.
This book is a hoot. (Sorry.) And it has given me more appreciation for my own owl-baby and support for allowing her to be who she is.
If you have a neurodivergent owl-baby of any kind, I think you will relate to this book and root for Tiny and her fierce little Chouette.