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Knocked Down - A High-Risk Memoir (Paperback) Loot Price: R540
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Knocked Down - A High-Risk Memoir (Paperback): Aileen Weintraub

Knocked Down - A High-Risk Memoir (Paperback)

Aileen Weintraub

Series: American Lives

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A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying "I do" she's pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. As her husband's bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. In her precarious situation, will she stay or will she once again run away from it all? Knocked Down is an emotionally charged, laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.

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Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Lives
Release date: 2022
Authors: Aileen Weintraub
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-3020-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > Pregnancy, birth & baby care
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-4962-3020-5
Barcode: 9781496230201

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