In the Shadow of Her

The invitation

For the mother. And the woman.

Motherhood can hold love and fear in the same breath. This memoir in poetry makes room for both: tenderness, NICU grief, postpartum weight, and the woman learning to hear herself again.

Motherhood does not erase the person who becomes a mother. In the Shadow of Her gives that woman room on the page, holding tenderness, NICU grief and postpartum weight without asking them to resolve into one tidy feeling.

A place for this book: For readers drawn to memoir in poetry, motherhood and the work of hearing yourself again.

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