{"product_id":"body-full-of-starsisbn-9781619024892","title":"Body Full of Stars","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression.\" —\u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Molly Caro May grapples with questions of grief and rage as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child. \u003ci\u003eBody Full of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e both reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies and celebrates the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co–parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.\"If you or someone you love is experiencing postpartum depression, pick up this book. The isolation the author felt after the birth of her child made her realize how little acknowledgement society gives to the mental burdens placed on new moms.\" —Kaitlyn Pirie, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression.\" —\u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e, a Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a beautiful, heart–filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May's.\" —Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, creators of The \u003ci\u003eBusiness of Being Born\u003c\/i\u003e and authors of \u003ci\u003eYour Best Birth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her brutally honest account is both deeply personal and comfortingly universal. She doesn’t shy away from the pain—emotional, physical, cultural, generational—of what she calls her 'passage into motherhood' . . . Her best, clearest, most lyrical writing practically dances off the page when she’s describing her love for her daughter.\" —\u003ci\u003ePureWow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, you thought motherhood was all sweetness and light? Then this book is here, finally, to set you straight . . . I have never read anything so honest about the transition into motherhood before . . . Everyone who reads this book will also benefit from a generous, accurate, and hopeful story that ends not with a happily ever after but with honesty, dignity, and strength in the face of life’s ongoing challenges, whether we are mothering our children, or just ourselves.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grapples with questions of love, grief, and healing as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child.\" —Kerri Jarema, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"May’s writing is intensely, beautifully visceral and she brings a new perspective to the postpartum period.\" —\u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this raw and lyrical book, the author holds nothing back. From the blinding rages to the blackest emotional abysses, she records all with an eloquence that is both powerful and restorative . . . A searingly eloquent memoir.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her healing memoir unabashedly begins a long–neglected conversation about postpartum rage and the power of reconnecting with your body that many a mom will appreciate.\" —\u003ci\u003ePregnancy \u0026amp; Newborn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If there was ever a person who could express through her tender use of language, the pain, upset and rage that so many new mothers feel in the dark, it’s Molly Caro–May.\" —\u003ci\u003eMama Glow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Radiant. Bursting with wisdom and wit, raw with honesty, full of the truth. This book is nothing short of remarkable, life affirming, and breathtaking.\" —Mira Ptacin, author of \u003ci\u003ePoor Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies—for our own good and for the good of humanity. Through sharing her fierce and shattering story, Molly May goes straight to the pelvis of female rage and echoes the legacy of the sacred feminine. It is healing, illuminated.\" —Laura Munson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not The Story You Think It Is...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the biggest story of humanity that is rarely told—the way in which birth isn’t just the passage for our existence on the planet, but how it breaks, transforms, and emboldens women worldwide. Molly May’s unflinching telling of her own rage and reconstitution after birth is beyond brave. It’s paradigm–shifting.\" —Courtney E. Martin, author of \u003ci\u003ePerfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Harms Young Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly Caro May\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Enough\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBody Full of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e. She received a writing fellowship at the Taft–Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hairpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e. After living in six countries and eight U.S. states, she has now made a home in Montana, where she lives with her husband, two young daughters, and Great Dane mutt. Find out more at mollycaromay.com","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304206880997,"sku":"NP9781619024892","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781619024892.jpg?v=1730756629","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/body-full-of-starsisbn-9781619024892","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}