Molly Caro May. (2017). Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood. Catapult.

Molly Caro May. 2017. Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood. Catapult.

Molly Caro May, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood. Catapult, 2017.

Molly Caro May. Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood. Catapult, 2017.

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   • bioText: Molly Caro May is the author of The Map of Enough and Body Full of Stars. She received a writing fellowship at the Taft–Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center, and her work has appeared in Salon, The Hairpin, Orion, and Fourth Genre. After living in six countries and eight U.S. states, she has now made a home in Montana, where she lives with her husband, two young daughters, and Great Dane mutt. Find out more at mollycaromay.com
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"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression." —Real Simple
Molly Caro May grapples with questions of grief and rage as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child. Body Full of Stars both reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies and celebrates the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co–parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.

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   • source: Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping
   • content: "If you or someone you love is experiencing postpartum depression, pick up this book. The isolation the author felt after the birth of her child made her realize how little acknowledgement society gives to the mental burdens placed on new moms."
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   • source: Real Simple, a Best Book of the Year
   • content: "In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression."
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   • source: Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, creators of The Business of Being Born and authors of Your Best Birth
   • content: "What a beautiful, heart–filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May's."
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   • content: "Her brutally honest account is both deeply personal and comfortingly universal. She doesn’t shy away from the pain--emotional, physical, cultural, generational--of what she calls her 'passage into motherhood' . . . Her best, clearest, most lyrical writing practically dances off the page when she’s describing her love for her daughter."
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   • source: The Rumpus
   • content: "Oh, you thought motherhood was all sweetness and light? Then this book is here, finally, to set you straight . . . I have never read anything so honest about the transition into motherhood before . . . Everyone who reads this book will also benefit from a generous, accurate, and hopeful story that ends not with a happily ever after but with honesty, dignity, and strength in the face of life’s ongoing challenges, whether we are mothering our children, or just ourselves."
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     November 15, 2017
     A nonfiction writer offers an account of the devastating physical and emotional consequences a much-desired pregnancy had on her life.Before the birth of her first daughter, May (The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place, 2014) counted herself fortunate. Her body had come through pregnancy with "no swollen ankles, no blood pressure spike, no low iron, no infections, no complications at all." But the birth also resulted in a gash that extended from her cervix to her vaginal opening, and she soon began to experience severe incontinence and mood swings that wrought havoc on her life and relationships. At times, she felt "mad," like a "viper" ready to strike. Yet as distressing as these health changes were, they forced the author into a startling new awareness of her body. The "inconvenience" of menstruation was now something more sacred, an ancient restorative function that purged as it cleansed. It was also the thing that allowed women to go within and "connect with the unknown and unseen world." Body awareness also caused May to re-evaluate her relationships with the women in her family, including her mother and newborn daughter. "We women carry each other--whether we want to or not, whether we plan to or not," she writes. A doctor eventually diagnosed May with postpartum thyroiditis, hormone imbalance, pelvic floor disorder, and malfunctioning adrenals. As she struggled to come to terms with bodily limitation and the anger seething at its core, she realized that her experiences, though not unique, existed in a "cultural black hole" that was defined by the empty catchall term "postpartum depression." In this raw and lyrical book, the author holds nothing back. From the blinding rages to the blackest emotional abysses, she records all with an eloquence that is both powerful and restorative. Ultimately, May came to understand that labor does not end with the birth of a child; it continues long afterward in the way a woman gives birth to herself as a mother and woman.A searingly eloquent memoir.

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Labor
The Girl Who Climbed Trees
Amass
Became Aware of Her Blood
Release
And Took Note of Her Shape
Float
As She Grew into a Woman
Shed
Who Chose a Cause and a Person
Ground
And the Moment to Expand
Mother

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