Crossing The Moon

The author relates her struggle to have a child and the self-knowledge gained through the course of infertility treatment

Crossing the Moon

Biographies & Memoirs

Alden, Paulette Bates

Arts & Literature

Penguin Group USA

A story of loyalty and honesty, attachment to people and place, love and the inevitable losses of life. The eleven stories feature Miriam Batson, a Southerner transplanted to the Midwest through marriage.

Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

United States

Graywolf Pr

Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories (Graywolf Short Fiction Series)

Short Stories & Anthologies

"So how was it, I wondered, that I had arrived at this point in my life: almost thirty-nine years old, no child? When I looked back, I could see why, and even when, I took a sharp turn away from motherhood. I could also see why motherhood would catch up with me." So asks Paulette Bates Alden in Crossing the Moon, a memoir - at once witty and wistful - in which the author recounts her initial ambivalence about motherhood, the pain and frustration of following a course of treatment for infertility, and ultimately the birth of a new self: a writer, comfortable at last with her family of two. Inevitably, the book also touches a wide array of other issues: aging parents; being raised Southern and female in the fifties; the trade-offs between a life of work and one devoted to nurture; coping with grief and loss. This is a fine companion for anyone struggling with infertility and a treasure for any woman coming to terms with who she is.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ruminator Books

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