Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-2007
Abstract
Excerpt: "Considering my own insecurities, I began reading Debra Rienstra's Great with Child: On Becoming a Mother with some caution, as the book promised to take its readers on "the fascinating journey of understanding the power and meaning of birth." An acquaintance at a professional conference had highly recommended the book upon discovering I was the mother of two small children -- but then, she had not known my boys were adopted. And thus, the first few pages of Rienstra's text set me on edge: here was another woman sharing her pregnancy woes and describing the "harrowing intensity of birth." I imagined once again feeling alienated, this time reading a book-length narrative about the journey I will never take."
Recommended Citation
Mock, Melanie Springer, "Uniquely Alike: A Review of Great with Child: On Becoming a Mother" (2007). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 111.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/111
Comments
Originally published in Literary Mama, February 2007.
http://www.literarymama.com/reviews/archives/2007/01/uniquely-alike.html