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A review by samanthaisonline
What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color by Kao Kalia Yang, Shannon Gibney
5.0
What God Is Honored Here? is a moving and meaningful book about miscarriage and infant loss written by Native women and women of color.
Each "chapter" is written by a woman who has loved and lost. The book is hard to read, though not because of bad writing. The losses are hard to digest, poignant and painful.
But they are things that need to be said. About doctors who brush off the experiences of women of color or miscarriages that hurt even though friends and family may think it doesn't matter, that the baby wasn't far enough along to count or be wanted.
I don't really have a way to finish this review, so I'm just going to end on a quote.
"It's not easy being the mother of a dead child. In fact, it may be the hardest kind of mothering there is" - Rona Fernandez
(Side note, two years later: I really don't know why I, as a 16 year old white girl, read this book. But I'm glad I did.)
(Thanks to NetGalley for providing a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.)
Each "chapter" is written by a woman who has loved and lost. The book is hard to read, though not because of bad writing. The losses are hard to digest, poignant and painful.
But they are things that need to be said. About doctors who brush off the experiences of women of color or miscarriages that hurt even though friends and family may think it doesn't matter, that the baby wasn't far enough along to count or be wanted.
I don't really have a way to finish this review, so I'm just going to end on a quote.
"It's not easy being the mother of a dead child. In fact, it may be the hardest kind of mothering there is" - Rona Fernandez
(Side note, two years later: I really don't know why I, as a 16 year old white girl, read this book. But I'm glad I did.)
(Thanks to NetGalley for providing a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.)