"First published in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, in 2019" -- Verso title page.
Contents:
Blue Hills and Chalk Bones -- Hair -- Our Mutual Friend -- 000 Miles of Blood -- On the Atomic Nature of Trimesters -- Panopticon: Hospital Visions -- The Moons of Motherhood -- The Haunted Haunting Women -- Where Does It Hurt? : Twenty stories based on the McGill pain index -- A Wound Gives Off Its Own Light -- The Adventure Narrative -- Twelve Stories of Bodily Autonomy (for the twelve women a day who leave) -- Second Mother -- A Non-Letter to My Daughter (named for a warrior queen)
Summary:
"For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds"-- Provided by publisher.
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