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03110aam a22003978i 4500 001 FBC5020CD5AC11E397D560D4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140507010044 008 131213s2014 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2013041341 020 $a 0374239320 (hardback) 020 $a 9780374239329 (hardback) : 035 $a (OCoLC)866859864 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BKL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RG651 $b .L23 2014 082 00 $a 618.4 $2 23 084 $a LCO010000 $a LCO010000 $2 bisacsh 245 00 $a Labor day : $b true birth stories by today's best women writers / $c edited by Eleanor Henderson, Anna Solomon. 250 $a 1st Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2014. 300 $a 310 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery--the stories that new mothers need most. Here is a book that transcends the limits of how-to guides and honors the act of childbirth in the twenty-first century. Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon have gathered true birth stories by women who have made self-expression their business, including Cheryl Strayed, Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Dani Shapiro, and many other luminaries. In Labor Day, you'll read about women determined to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals; women who pushed for hours and women whose labors were over practically before they'd started; women giving birth to twins and to ten-pound babies. These women give birth in the hospital, at home, in bathtubs, and, yes, even in the car. Some revel in labor, some fear labor, some feel defeated by labor, some are fulfilled by it--and all are amazed by it. You will laugh, weep, squirm, perhaps groan in recognition, and undoubtedly gasp with surprise. And then you'll call every mother or mother-to-be that you know and say "You MUST read Labor Day.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "An anthology that will explore the birth experience from a wide-ranging group of esteemed writers (including Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and others), with all the force, frankness, humor, and honesty that the best personal writing has to offer"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Labor (Obstetrics) $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Childbirth $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Motherhood $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Authors $x Family relationships $v Anecdotes. 700 1 $a Henderson, Eleanor, $e editor of compilation. 700 1 $a Solomon, Anna, $e editor of compilation. 941 $a 3 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110055100.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006075700.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20140704011012.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FBC5020CD5AC11E397D560D4DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search