Lawrence Lazare
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Flesh & Blood
- Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir
- De: N. West Moss
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she manages to drive herself to the nearest hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—uterine hemangioma—is rendered and a hysterectomy is scheduled. In prose both lyrical and unsparing, Moss takes us along through illness, relapse, and recovery. And as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, she reflects on kin and kinship and on what it means to leave a legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful Memoir Filled with Life, Love, and joy
- De Lawrence Lazare en 10-15-21
- Flesh & Blood
- Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir
- De: N. West Moss
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
A Beautiful Memoir Filled with Life, Love, and joy
Revisado: 10-15-21
With a central theme of infertility, some reviewers have categorized this book as a work for a female audience, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This is a beautiful memoir, that, to categorize it as being about infertility, is to sell it short. It's a meditation on life, loss, family, praying mantises, middle age, growing up in the woods north of New York City, the healing powers of celery soup, marriage, and yes, infertility. Despite the seriousness of the central subject, it’s filled with life, love, and joy.
Perfectly narrated by Erin Spenser, Moss’ tale bears the hallmark of the best of memoirs, her voice is sure and strong and filled with humor, but her writing style is never heavyhanded or maudlin, even when discussing the most challenging of subjects. Moss’ struggle with infertility in her 40’s and 50’s is the centerpiece of this tale, but it’s also an exploration of her bonds with her mother and grandmother, and ultimately it’s a love letter to her two elders that sets this book apart.
The book oozes with stories of Grandma Hastings’s youth in New Orleans, Moss’ bucolic childhood in the woods of Northern Westchester county, and the loving steadfastness of Moss’ mother Anne. The simple joys of life and family surround a tale of miscarriage and hysterectomy. The book addresses the challenges of illness, loss, and recovery, and as a man who is dealing with my own loss based on illness, I was able to get a better perspective on my own healing journey having been led through Moss’ own experience with illness and recovery.
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Flesh & Blood
- Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life
- De: N. West Moss
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she drives herself to the hospital, rather than bother anyone about an ambulance. Because she is a writer, she can’t help her next thoughts: “The word ‘exsanguinate’ comes bubbling up into my mind as I drive. Perhaps I am exsanguinating. Bleeding out. It’s a magnificent word, exsanguinate. Exsanguination. Latin, probably. Worth a zillion points in Scrabble.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful Memoir Filled with Life, Love, and joy
- De Lawrence Lazare en 10-15-21
- Flesh & Blood
- Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life
- De: N. West Moss
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
A Beautiful Memoir Filled with Life, Love, and joy
Revisado: 10-15-21
With a central theme of infertility, some reviewers have categorized this book as a work for a female audience, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This is a beautiful memoir, that, to categorize it as being about infertility, is to sell it short. It's a meditation on life, loss, family, praying mantises, middle age, growing up in the woods north of New York City, the healing powers of celery soup, marriage, and yes, infertility. Despite the seriousness of the central subject, it’s filled with life, love, and joy.
Perfectly narrated by Erin Spenser, Moss’ tale bears the hallmark of the best of memoirs, her voice is sure and strong and filled with humor, but her writing style is never heavyhanded or maudlin, even when discussing the most challenging of subjects. Moss’ struggle with infertility in her 40’s and 50’s is the centerpiece of this tale, but it’s also an exploration of her bonds with her mother and grandmother, and ultimately it’s a love letter to her two elders that sets this book apart.
The book oozes with stories of Grandma Hastings’s youth in New Orleans, Moss’ bucolic childhood in the woods of Northern Westchester county, and the loving steadfastness of Moss’ mother Anne. The simple joys of life and family surround a tale of miscarriage and hysterectomy. The book addresses the challenges of illness, loss, and recovery, and as a man who is dealing with my own loss based on illness, I was able to get a better perspective on my own healing journey having been led through Moss’ own experience with illness and recovery.
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