Great Expectations Ed 2 - Twenty-Five True Stories about Childbirth (Paperback)

In this exceptional collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth. Moving, uniquely honest, and transformative, 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.

General

Imprint:	House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	July 2018
Editors:	Lisa Moore • Dede Crane
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-4870-0389-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4870-0389-7
Barcode:	9781487003890

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