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Labor day, true birth stories by today's best women writers, edited by Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon

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non fiction

Labor day

edited by Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon

true birth stories by today's best women writers

"Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filledwith month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery--the stories that new mothers need most. Here is a book that transcends the limits of how-to guides and honorsthe act of childbirth in the twenty-first century. Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon have gathered true birth stories by women who have made self-expression their business, including Cheryl Strayed, Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Dani Shapiro, and many other luminaries. In Labor Day, you'll read about women determined to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals; women who pushed for hours and women whose labors were over practically before they'd started; women giving birth to twins and to ten-pound babies. These women give birth in the hospital, at home, in bathtubs, and, yes, even in the car. Some revel in labor, some fear labor, some feel defeated by labor, some are fulfilled by it--and all are amazed by it. You will laugh, weep, squirm, perhaps groan in recognition, and undoubtedly gasp with surprise. And then you'll call every mother or mother-to-be that you know and say "You MUST read Labor Day.""--, Provided by publisher"An anthology that will explore the birth experience from a wide-ranging group of esteemed writers (including Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and others), with all the force, frankness, humor, and honesty that the best personal writing has to offer"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction : expect the unexpected, What I’m trying to say / Anna Solomon, It takes a building / Phoebe Damrosch, Three / Heidi Pitlor, What to expect when you’re not expecting / Marie Myung-Ok Lee, The twin / Lauren Groff, Blood and chocolate / Sarah Jefferis, If, if, if / Edan Lepucki, This life / Ann Hood, Timely born / Lan Samantha Chang, Ask your mother / Joanna Rakoff, my 1st ds was born on tues at slr! / Susan Burton, The broken I / Rachel Jamison Webster, Thirty hours / Dani Shapiro, The rest of life / Gina Zucker, Live from the NICU / Sarah A. Strickley, Twice delivered / Jane Roper, Lucky / Heidi Julavits, California grown / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, The lavender room / Cheryl Strayed, Neighbor / Nuar Alsadir, Weight / Mary Beth Keane, More / Amy Herzog, One year, two births / Amy Brill, We / Danzy Senna, The tigers in the room / Arielle Greenberg, The second time around / Julia Glass, The waiting room / Jennifer Gilmore, After everything / Cristina Henríquez, Not telling / Claire Dederer, Two lines / Eleanor Henderson

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True birth stories by today's best women writers