A Better Woman A Better Woman

A Better Woman

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

Acclaimed novelist Susan Johnson found, at age thirty-five, that her desire to have a baby became overwhelming. She had no inkling what motherhood would cost -- or give -- her. But as she went on to experience pregnancy and birth, and their impact on her marriage, health, and heart, she recorded it all. In this hauntingly lovely account, Johnson portrays a woman transformed by motherhood, and a writer forever changed by a widening chasm of experience. Her initial ecstasy jostles against bewilderment, rage, and despair, however, when she develops a rare complication of childbirth; she is "a one-woman catastrophe, a small ruined country." She is also burning to get words on paper. The result, A Better Woman, should be required reading for every woman hungry to give birth -- and every mother yearning to have her deepest feelings heard.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2010
May 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Washington Square Press
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
6.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Reading in the dark ,

Unsatisfying

I tried to really get into this book on multiple occasions. Yet, it took me over a year to get to the final page and that only happened because of a sleepless night and hoping I might at least be satisfied by the ending. WRONG. The tone of the writing seemed so forced upon the telling of this particular life story. I was more impressed by the quotes throughout the book then anything else. I would not recommend this book to a single reader.

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