This odd but riveting book made a good companion to The Upstairs House; both narrators must find a way to parent and protect their brand-new infants while feeling (and being!) relatively isolated. And Exoskeletons has the kind of fragmented prose that suited the narrators of Dept of Speculation and What We Lose when they suffered loss and tried to hang onto their identities after becoming mothers. But that’s where the resemblance stops; this post-partum narrative takes place in a dystopian surveillance state, where characters are watched via cameras in their homes and some have been assigned additional shadows to warn others of supposed crimes they committed. Including the narrator, as well as her brand new baby who is saddled with the blame for her second mother’s death by childbirth.