![]() ![]() ![]() Cedar ( Future Home of the Living God) gives birth in the final pages, only to have her child immediately taken from her. The novels end before pregnant protagonists Esch ( Salvage the Bones), Frida ( California), and Fan ( On Such a Full Sea) give birth. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011), Edan Lepucki’s California (2014), Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014), and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017) notably all share a focus on pregnancy-as opposed to childrearing or the children themselves. ![]()
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