A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling li...
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<div><b>A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.</b><br><br> 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. <br><br><i>And Now We Have Everything</i> 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. <br><br> Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, <i>And Now We Have Everything</i> is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself. <br><br><b>Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed</b></div>
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