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
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthod
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