Vicki Forman

This Lovely Life (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Premature Motherhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One woman's true story of raising a child born three months premature-"propulsive, startling, and vivid, like motherhood itself" (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times-bestselling author of The Female Persuasion). Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing only one pound each, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go"-knowing all too well that at their early stage of development they would likely die and, if they survived, would have a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube. This Lovely Life tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins-the harrowing medical interventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death. In the end, the long-delayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman's intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother's fierce love for her children. "Intimate, compelling, and hopeful-an absolutely important book." -Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547394404
• Artikelnr.: 37841199

Autorenporträt

Vicki Forman's work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review as well as in the anthologies Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, This Day: Diaries from American Women, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. She lives in La Canada, California.