The author of this book—a French psychologist and psychoanalyst—takes readers on an inward journey meant for mothers themselves, exploring the difficult and often unexpected path from the act of bearing a child to actually becoming, and feeling like, a mother. She confronts urgent questions: assisted reproduction, same-sex couples seeking parenthood, abortion, abandonment, infanticide. But she does more than simply catalog these issues. Rather than letting them become tabloid headlines or abstract news stories, she examines them with real understanding, drawing on twenty years of conversations with women she has counseled and supported. She does this without judgment, giving voice to the silent tears of ordinary women.
A chance to confront all the assumptions we carry about motherhood.
Cristina Tersigni, 2007