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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Belletrist Book Club Pick * The Times (London) Book of the Week
âEssential reading for anyone whoâs felt failed by the parental canon.â âTown & Country
âAn honest and refreshing take on motherhood.â âToday
âWith blistering honestyâ (Oprah Daily), this nationally bestselling motherhood memoir dares to ask what happens when âwhat to expect when youâre expectingâ turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.
Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life sheâd imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.
She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctorsâa stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy.
Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctorâs diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experienceâshe was drowning in postpartum depressionâand that she wasnât a bad mother or a failed woman.
At its core, this âpage-turning look at the realities of motherhood and postpartum depressionâ (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author) is about learning to forgive yourself. Itâs a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And itâs a propulsive and whip-smart âwelcome moment of truthâ (W Magazine) on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parentingâa motherhood memoir unlike any other.
Belletrist Book Club Pick * The Times (London) Book of the Week
âEssential reading for anyone whoâs felt failed by the parental canon.â âTown & Country
âAn honest and refreshing take on motherhood.â âToday
âWith blistering honestyâ (Oprah Daily), this nationally bestselling motherhood memoir dares to ask what happens when âwhat to expect when youâre expectingâ turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.
Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life sheâd imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.
She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctorsâa stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy.
Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctorâs diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experienceâshe was drowning in postpartum depressionâand that she wasnât a bad mother or a failed woman.
At its core, this âpage-turning look at the realities of motherhood and postpartum depressionâ (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author) is about learning to forgive yourself. Itâs a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And itâs a propulsive and whip-smart âwelcome moment of truthâ (W Magazine) on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parentingâa motherhood memoir unlike any other.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Belletrist Book Club Pick * The Times (London) Book of the Week
âEssential reading for anyone whoâs felt failed by the parental canon.â âTown & Country
âAn honest and refreshing take on motherhood.â âToday
âWith blistering honestyâ (Oprah Daily), this nationally bestselling motherhood memoir dares to ask what happens when âwhat to expect when youâre expectingâ turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.
Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life sheâd imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.
She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctorsâa stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy.
Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctorâs diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experienceâshe was drowning in postpartum depressionâand that she wasnât a bad mother or a failed woman.
At its core, this âpage-turning look at the realities of motherhood and postpartum depressionâ (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author) is about learning to forgive yourself. Itâs a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And itâs a propulsive and whip-smart âwelcome moment of truthâ (W Magazine) on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parentingâa motherhood memoir unlike any other.
Belletrist Book Club Pick * The Times (London) Book of the Week
âEssential reading for anyone whoâs felt failed by the parental canon.â âTown & Country
âAn honest and refreshing take on motherhood.â âToday
âWith blistering honestyâ (Oprah Daily), this nationally bestselling motherhood memoir dares to ask what happens when âwhat to expect when youâre expectingâ turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.
Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life sheâd imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.
She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctorsâa stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy.
Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctorâs diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experienceâshe was drowning in postpartum depressionâand that she wasnât a bad mother or a failed woman.
At its core, this âpage-turning look at the realities of motherhood and postpartum depressionâ (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author) is about learning to forgive yourself. Itâs a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And itâs a propulsive and whip-smart âwelcome moment of truthâ (W Magazine) on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parentingâa motherhood memoir unlike any other.
