Clare Beams

Sep 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Megan Giddings |Clare Beams |Maggie Cooper

Reading Lists These authors imagine the radical possibilities of a place that prioritize marginalized genders, instead of men It’s one thing for a book to pass the Bechdel Test or give readers a glimpse inside Virginia Woolf’s room of one’s own—it’s another for a book to let that room extend from cover to cover. After spending far too many of my school years reading books about cis boys and men, as an adult, I’ve gravitated toward books about the rest of us, and I’m particularly fascinated...

May 31, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Clare Beams

Skip to content Reading Lists Clare Beams, author of "The Garden," recommends stories that capture the near-supernatural feeling of being a mother Being a mother, for me, has had the effect of raising the ceiling on most feelings. My children (now eleven and seven years old) have carried me to new heights of hilarity and joy, but in the midst of these feelings I’m aware too of their corollary: the understanding, which arrived suddenly right after each of their births, that I’d made a terribly...

Apr 9, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Clare Beams

THE GARDEN, by Clare BeamsIrene Willard is a midcentury American woman with a history of miscarriages and a husband who is eager to start a family. Still childless, now pregnant for the sixth time, Irene dutifully packs herself off to an isolated ancestral estate that has been repurposed by a husband-and-wife medical team into a care center for high-risk pregnancies. This place is more haunted manse than hospital.

Apr 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Clare Beams

What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels In Clare Beams's eerie new novel, "The Garden," nefarious things are afoot. THE GARDEN, by Clare BeamsIrene Willard is a midcentury American woman with a history of miscarriages and a husband who is eager to start a family.

Apr 9, 2024 | lithub.com | Clare Beams

The history of women’s medicine is a large and shadowy room, with whole back portions almost entirely dark—and sometimes, our post-Roe world has shown us, tendrils of this darkness still steal into the present. I was wandering in that dark by choice, though, doing research for my first novel, when I first came across a reference to diethylstilbestrol.