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Every first-time expectant mother probably starts a journal. But by the time we're through our first box of saltines we have abandoned the project. We can thank author Lisa Harper for sticking with hers, and turning her notes into the fascinating book, A Double Life. Pregnancy is, as Harper says, interesting.
Harper's pregnancy began with conception on the painful day of September 11, 2001. " And so, on the most tragic day we had known, we lit a candle and made love...we made love because we could, because it was one of the few strengths left to us." And thus began an ordinary pregnancy--utterly, supremely ordinary, as most pregnancies are, and also, as all pregnancies are, a seemingly miraculous event. A Double Life takes the reader through a search for understanding of all that it means to be pregnant, including biologically, psychologically, and philosophically. A Double Life also gives a voice to the conflicting feelings that emerge when women face the switch from independent woman and wife to mother. When Harper feels the first labor contractions, for example, her mind goes to two separate places, "I leaned over the fencepost. I watched a fat black knuckle of a bee pollinate the yellow flower of an ice plant. I thought of our honeymoon: the cliffs of the Cinque Terre...I breathed deliberately...I knew it was nothing compared to what was to come."
While A Double Life will no doubt be a popular gift to expectant mothers, it's other value as a gift is to women who already are mothers; they will take pleasure and comfort in recognizing themselves in a story that goes back before recorded time.

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