Ilana Bernstein

painting by Mary Cassatt - Mother and Child (The Goodnight Hug)

The Chaotic Storm of Motherhood in Tomorrow We’ll Go to the Amusement Park

Ilana Bernstein’s 2018 novel is a portrait of a motherhood so demanding and a depression so immersive that it becomes impossible to tell which came first. Throughout the book, the symptoms of the narrator’s different conditions, including being a mother, become indistinguishable from one another, her emotions bleeding into one another.