The novel is named for the owl-daughter who arrives and proceeds to overturn every system in Tiny’s life. She wrestles with the effect this baby will have on her music career, not to mention her reputation within her husband’s equally dull family. Tiny, a professional cellist living in Sacramento, has stepped out on her dull husband to have an affair with a beloved friend from her youth, a female owl, and is now pregnant with a baby who is half human, half owl.
These renderings resulted from Neel’s grappling with the dual responsibilities of mother and artist, a dilemma she referred to as “that awful dichotomy.” Directly born from this dichotomy is Claire Oshetsky’s searing and ethereal debut novel, “Chouette.” Visitors to this year’s wildly popular Alice Neel retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were treated to portraits depicting pregnancy at its most candid.
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