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Each month I share some new and soon-to-be published books on infertility and related spiritual and emotional topics. I haven’t read these books, so these aren’t recommendations. I just like to share what’s new! Enjoy!
Broken Hallelujahs: Learning to Grieve the Big and Small Losses of Life
Amazon’s description: The losses in our lives are both big and small, and cover a range of experiences. We leave home. We experience physical illness and disabilities. We struggle with vocation and finances. We may long for a spouse or child. We lose people we love to addiction or illness and death. All of these losses can build into questions and doubts about faith. We may experience depression or other mental health struggles. Where is God in the midst of our losses? In this book spiritual director Beth Slevcove shares stories from her own life about losses and struggles. Along the way, she offers distinctive spiritual practices that can guide us back to God and, in the end, to ourselves.
Life Without Baby: Surviving and Thriving When Motherhood Doesn’t Happen
Amazon’s description: “When this doubt first takes hold, it can knock you completely off your feet. You feel cheated, frustrated, and no longer sure of your place in society, your family, or your circle of friends. Now…imagine you could spend time with someone who really understands how you feel, who lets you express all the things that once seemed whiny, self-indulgent, or just plain crazy, and who confides that she once felt that way too.”
Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney’s 32 On-Screen Rejections
Amazon’s description: “In spite of her glamorous Hollywood life…Giuliana could not escape some rockier times, including her battles with infertility and breast cancer. Here, she reveals the whole truth behind her well-publicized struggles, and the highly controversial decisions she had to make.”
It’s Giveaway Time!
I’m giving away two copies of Dear Thing by Julie Cohen. Here’s the description from the publisher:
In March, St. Martin’s Griffin will publish Dear Thing by Julie Cohen. You won’t be able to put down this heart-rending, but ultimately uplifting, novel about how infertility and surrogacy complicate a friendship and a marriage.
Infertility and surrogacy touch millions of lives each day. Dear Thing captures the angst and hope tied into trying to start a family. Equally thought-provoking and emotional, Julie Cohen’s U.S. debut is sure to be the next book you pass onto your best friend.
After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most.
Romily expects it will be easy to be a surrogate. She’s already a single mother, and she has no desire for any more children. But Romily isn’t prepared for the overwhelming feelings that have taken hold of her and which threaten to ruin her friendship with Ben and Claire-and even destroy their marriage.
Now there are three friends, two mothers and only one baby, and an impossible decision to make…
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