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luvandkiwi's review
5.0
I loved this book. So honest and funny, yes...but not in an inapropriate way. Perfect balance of everything...
fizapirani's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Pregnancy, and Child death
johnnymacaroni's review
5.0
It's hard to love such a sad story but Elizabeth's writing is so inviting...I felt like I was listening to an old friend's story...an important story. It's a difficult but rewarding read.
tracyk22's review
5.0
This is the story of Elizabeth McCracken and how she survived the stillbirth of her son. It is her story alone. Yet it is the story of every woman who has experienced this tragedy. Ms. McCracken has given a voice on a subject that has long been much too silent. I wish I had written this book. But I am better for having read it. I related to her attitude on grief and death, which is you don't want to wallow in it, but you don't want to shut it up in a closet either. It's just there. Sometimes people don't understand the loss of a child who never breathed on their own. This book will explain it. She writes, "He was a person. I missed him like a person."
lavoiture's review
5.0
Heartbreaking, heartbreaking, heartbreaking, but beautiful and funny and sad. Highly recommended, but you will be weeping in public. And probably not a to-read if you're pregnant or trying to get pregnant or have recently had a child, given the subject matter. But maybe you're stronger than me!
Recommended to me by one of my favorite websites, The Hairpin.
Recommended to me by one of my favorite websites, The Hairpin.
lizaroo71's review
4.0
mccracken writes about the loss of her first child in the ninth month of his development. her candidness and heartbreaking honesty makes this book one that gives me the peace in knowing someone gets the magnitude of the grief from this type of loss. although i didn't lose babies in the ninth month, what she describes in the aftermath of such a loss sounds familiar. i will definitely recommend this book to anyone i know that has lost a child or miscarried a baby.