Meaghan O. Connell (Bücher)

Meaghan O. Connell Bücher

Meaghan O'Connell befasst sich mit Themen wie Elternschaft und persönlichen Finanzen mit scharfem Einblick und Humor. Ihr Schreiben, das sich durch Offenheit und Selbstreflexion auszeichnet, spricht Leser an, die einen ehrlichen Blick auf die Komplexität des modernen Lebens suchen. O'Connell untersucht die Spannung zwischen Idealen und Realität mit einer Perspektive, die durch ihre eigenen Erfahrungen geschärft wurde. Ihre Arbeit bietet eine unverwechselbare Sichtweise auf die oft unbequemen, aber universellen Aspekte des Erwachsenwerdens und Familienlebens.

And Now We Have Everything

230 Seiten
9 Lesestunden

3,9(6029)Abgeben

Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Autostraddle, BookRiot, Women.com "Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.