The Motherhood Affidavits

A Memoir

De: Laura Jean Baker

Narrado por: Tiffany Morgan

A prodigious talent blazes onto the American literary scene with this bold, original memoir of her perilous - yet life-saving - addiction to childbearing

With the birth of her first child, Laura Jean Baker found herself electrified by oxytocin, the "love drug" - the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Again and again over the next eight years, Baker finds herself craving the intense highs of childbearing - cravings that, she realizes, align her much more closely with her public defender husband's desperate, drug-addled clients than with their middle-class peers. As Ryan's roster of defendants increases, so too does their family - nearly to the point of collapse.

Brilliantly crafted, impeccably written, intensely personal, The Motherhood Affidavits portrays a woman, a marriage, a family, caught in an impossible bind. Its heartbreaking resolution raises profound questions about whether we, as a society, are governed by morals or by laws - and whether either is an adequate measure of any one person's ability to parent and capacity for love.

©2018 Laura Jean Baker (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Incredible!

The author writes with such honesty and compassion. It is like you are right there with her in the story. This book feels like a safe space.

Mental instability comes in all forms.

This book, a non-fiction memoir, was full of emotional twists and turns and upheavals like no other memoir I’ve read. While I recommend it as a study because it is very well written and portrays a solid family with values and morals that I am willing to discuss, there are difficult parts to read and discuss.

From chapter two this was very obviously a study in depression and mental instability. I recommend but be prepared emotionally, this is not a light summer beach read.