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And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready  Cover Image Book Book

And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready / Meaghan O'Connell.

Summary:

When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316393843
  • ISBN: 9780316393843
  • Physical Description: 272 pages ; cm
  • Edition: Hardback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2018.
Subject: Motherhood.
Single mothers.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Scenic Regional.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Scenic Regional-Union 306.8743 OCO (Text) 3005786668 NonFiction Available -


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