In this memoir of her 40 weeks and five days in hell, Andrea Askowitz takes an unflinching look at her pregnant life from struggling with hormones to poor body image to a self imposed exile from family to take us on a ride through the turbulence of single lesbian motherhood. Along the way we meet her liberal parents as they struggle with their daughter's choices, the lover she longs to reconnect with who goes M.I.A. before the pregnancy, the friends who turn out to be no help at all and strangers who offer up some unlikely kindness. Andrea presents herself real, raw, impossibly cranky yet deeply touching with her self-deprecating dark sense of humor that will make you wince or better yet send you into uncontrollable fits of laughter.
- ISBN10 1573443158
- ISBN13 9781573443159
- Publish Date 28 April 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 March 2020
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cleis Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English