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A Guide to Being Born

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A Guide to Being Born

By: Ramona Ausubel
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne
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A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life - love, conception, gestation, birth - and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way.

In "Atria" a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in "Catch and Release" a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in "Tributaries" people grow a new arm each time they fall in love.

©2013 Ramona Ausubel (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Pregnancy Witty

Critic reviews

"Lyrical stories arranged around themes of birth, gestation, conception and love... Ausubel has a gift of language so rich that even the most mundane events are invested with poetry, and many of her characters are in need of all the poetry they can muster." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"...a charming, at times precious collection of stories..." ( Publishers Weekly)
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