Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories—the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profaneIt’s an elemental, almost animalistic urge—the expectant mother’s hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are fill
A big, heartrending novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl.One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the
