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Author:
Jessica Zucker
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date:
March 9, 2021
Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. In this memoir, she confronts the cultural silence around miscarriages and illuminates how she built a movement from her experience, transforming trauma into human connection.
What The Reviewers Say
Though it plagues one in four pregnancies, pregnancy loss is not something mothers are encouraged to discuss, which Zucker makes clear in her memoir-slash-manifesto. Zucker, a psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health and the founder of the #IHadAMiscarriage movement, is an expert on miscarriage: she provides therapy to mothers experiencing pregnancy loss.
Psychologist Zucker delivers an illuminating discussion of miscarriage in her strikingly intimate debut memoir.
The author is candid about the personal, frightening details of her loss, and she smoothly interweaves her moving story with the narratives of some of her clients, all of which are complex and worthy of examination.
