![]() ![]() In the novel, the story of the pandemic and the pregnancy gets intermingled with the politics over both: the government being in denial about the extent of the pandemic and making half-hearted efforts to contain it, leaving the people to fend for themselves, just as it remains oblivious to the widespread poverty.ĭonoghue’s strength as a writer lies in the fact that she often tells the story through a strong narrative voice, like in the Booker Prize-shortlisted Room (2010), which was adapted for an Academy Award-winning film, and The Wonder (2016), a thriller. And they would be very interesting in combination,” she says. The birth story will not be the same as the flu story. “I thought that was interesting because then, I could have two crises going on. When she was researching for the novel, Donoghue looked for a hook to the story and she found a little fact: women in late pregnancy tended to catch the flu and have worst symptoms. ![]() ![]() The Pull of the Stars, thus, is an alternative war novel - women in the battlefield of reproduction - which primarily concerns itself with the “heroic event” of childbirth in the time of the pandemic. Donoghue attempts to subvert that tradition and shows us that women’s role in times of crisis, natural or man-made, throughout history, has been no less heroic. War novels, traditionally, have been dominated by men, mostly white, in the trenches. ![]()
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