A Life's Work: On Becoming a MotherMothers are the countries we come from: sometimes when I hold my daughter I try to apprehend this belonging for her, to feel myself as solid and fixed, to capture my smell and shape and atmosphere. I try to flesh out her native landscape. I try to imagine what it would be like to have me as a mother. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Forty Weeks II | 11 |
Lily Barts Baby 45 | 45 |
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