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Proxy Mom: My Experience with Postpartum Depression
By Karol Kovalovich Weaver Proxy Mom: My Experience with Postpartum Depression traces a new mother’s postpartum depression. The main character, Marietta, narrates her pregnancy and birth experience, parenting a newborn, and her return to work. In the book’s acknowledgements, the author Sophie Adriansen and illustrator Mathou share that Marietta’s story is similar to what they faced after the births of their infants. Adriansen reveals that she experienced “a long period of postpartum depression” and Mathou confesses that, after her daughter’s birth, “it wasn’t exactly love at first sight and I didn’t exactly experience the most beautiful day of my… Read More
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
DISCLAIMER: This memoir is intended for mature audiences and for people who want a better understanding of mental illness. Reader discretion is advised for those who might find mentions of divorce, suicide, suicide ideation, or mental illness triggering or distressing. Review by Saily Marrero Margaret Kimball’s illustrated memoir, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, begins with the following line, “My mom was thirty-one when she decided to take her own life” (pg. 2). What follows is the author’s personal and honest portrayal of her childhood and teenage years as she, as an adult, attempts to understand, cope, and… Read More