Great Expectations
Synopsis
In this moving, uniquely honest, and transformative collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: childbirth. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author and columnist Leah McLaren, Great Expectations takes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other: Lynn Coady relates the painful memory of her teenage pregnancy and the anguish of having to give up her newborn for adoption; Peter Behrens expresses a father’s feeling of utter helplessness and incomparable joy during the birth of his first child; Christy Ann Conlin describes pregnancy and birth at age forty; Afua Cooper reflects upon the immigrant’s experience of three pregnancies and childbirths in a new land with foreign, and evolving, customs; Anne Fleming contemplates her partner’s artificial insemination and the birth of a beautiful girl; and Jaclyn Moriarty transcribes her grandmother’s and her mother’s birth stories, along with her own, to create a tender oral history spanning three generations.
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 2008 Dede Crane and Lisa Moore
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781487003906
- Publisher:
- House of Anansi Press Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 2021-06-23T04:01:34Z
- भाषा:
- English
- Categories:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.