What We Didn't Expect

Personal Stories About Premature Birth

What We Didn't Expect
Melody Schreiber
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm
12 Nov 2020 US
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9781612198606
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Every year, 400,000 families in the United States have a premature baby. Ten percent of babies in the US are preemies. There are textbooks, medical-ish guidebooks, and the occasional memoir to turn to . . . but no personal essay collections from the many types of people who have parented, cared for, or been preemies themselves. In What We Didn' t Expect, Melody Schreiber brings together acclaimed writers and thinkers to share their diverse stories of having or being premature babies, including Representative Pramila Jayapal, Tyrese Coleman, Anne Theriault, Sarah DiGregorio, Dan Koboldt, and many more.
What We Didn' t Expect is a beautiful and necessary addition to the pregnancy and parenting canon. The stories so generously shared in this anthology will be familiar to many who do not always see their experiences, traumas, and joys acknowledged or honored in literature about childbirth. --Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A MemoirVital and vivid, What We Didn' t Expect is essential reading for families dealing with premature birth and its aftermath. These poignant essays span the spectrum of this experience, in all its pain and hope. Deeply compelling. --Vanessa Hua, A River of Stars This remarkable collection gives voice to the families of babies born prematurely--a group that' s larger and more multifaceted than one might expect. Melody Schreiber has deftly combined their stories into a compendium for families facing their most vulnerable time. This book will help anyone understand what it means to be a parent. --Olga Khazan, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider WorldEmotional. . . affecting essays reach out to new and prospective parents. --Kirkus
Melody Schreiber is a freelance journalist who has written for The Atlantic, Catapult, NPR, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, Vice,Wired, and has appeared on CNN,
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781612198606
Published: 12 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
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