![]() ![]() All are marked by both joy and terror severe eclampsia makes for a traumatic birth experience. Here, she describes with a frank and refreshing honesty her personal journey - the fertility problems she faced when trying to conceive her multiple miscarriages the nine months of pregnancy, including her frustration in feeling unheard by medical professionals and the birth itself. ![]() Knisley is someone who knew, since childhood, that she wanted to be a mother. Her newest book - Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos (First Second), released in February of this year - chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son. (As someone there now myself, I’ll be eager to read her take on middle age’hood.) And I’m there, so totally there, for these comics memoirs I hope she continues to document every stage of her life. Author and comics artist Lucy Knisley has written (and drawn) candidly about many stages of her life - her childhood as the daughter of a chef and gourmet ( Relish, published in 2012) her trip abroad to Europe/Scandinavia as a single woman ( An Age of License: A Travelogue, published in 2014) her marriage to her partner ( Something New: Tales From a Makeshift Bride, published in 2016) and more. ![]()
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