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{"id":6813806264379,"title":"Great Expectations","handle":"great-expectations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this moving, uniquely honest, and transformative collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: childbirth. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an introduction by bestselling author and columnist Leah McLaren, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations \u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other: Lynn Coady relates the painful memory of her teenage pregnancy and the anguish of having to give up her newborn for adoption; Peter Behrens expresses a father’s feeling of utter helplessness and incomparable joy during the birth of his first child; Christy Ann Conlin describes pregnancy and birth at age forty; Afua Cooper reflects upon the immigrant’s experience of three pregnancies and childbirths in a new land with foreign, and evolving, customs; 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No matter which you are, you'll find something to enjoy in these often humorous and dramatic personal stories. The contributors are a who's who of CanLit.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Best Health","OtherText_Review_2":"Some of Canada's best writers . . . delve into their experiences of childbirth and bare their souls in sharing their memories . . . [Great Expectations] demands the best that each writer has to give. These writers deliver.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_3":"As suits such a multi-faceted subject, this collection is varied in tone, narrative, and authorship...All the writers are award winning authors so the prose is always very good, deftly observant, forming sharp, poignant, comic, succinct dramas . . . Each story can stand alone as an engrossing read. Together they create a lovely sense of continuum.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In this collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-03-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In this collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth.","Subtitle":"Twenty-Five True Stories about Childbirth","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
