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2024:a motherhood memoir unlike any other.
2024:a motherhood memoir unlike any other.
Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she’d imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.
She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors–a stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no… joy.
Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctor’s diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experience–she was drowning in postpartum depression–and that she wasn’t a bad mother or a failed woman.
New York
Locations aren’t key here but the novel or memoir is set in the world of art and the high life – the rich crowd who call the Hamptons home.
Just goes to show that age, wealth and where you live has no bearing on what you can go through as a young mother. Motherhood is a story about post partum depression and there are bleak moments throughout.
Destination/location: New York City Author/guide: Sarah Hoover Departure Time: 2024
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