She lives and works in Chicago, with her husband and child.A newly wedded comic artist shares her experience, by turns hesitant and enthusiastic, planning the big event.Īlex Award winner Knisley ( Relish, 2013, etc.) offers another genial and creative graphic memoir.

She previously published the New York Times bestseller Relish: My Life in the Kitchen and Something New with First Second. Booklist, starred review About the Author Lucy Knisley is the author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family. Club In sharing her journeys bumps and switchbacks, Knisley assures that theres no perfect pregnancy story and that even a lot of strife wont dim the joy of a childs ecstatic arrival.

Her art has be more refined and ambitious, eliciting specific feelings and reactions alongside telling a true story. The pages breathe easily, cleverly composed and uncluttered.-The New York Times Knisleys nuanced look at pregnancy and her message of bodily autonomy will resonate with teens, especially those who appreciated the graphic anthology Mine! -School Library Journal Lucy Knisley has a well-earned reputation for emotionally evocative, introspective, and intimate autobiographical work. But the book, with its jaunty colors and friendly black art, works best as an extended public service announcement. Review Quotes Knisleys personal journey can be compelling and quite funny. Whether youve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, theres something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucys personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery.

But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything shed ever attempted. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. Book Synopsis A New York Times bestseller If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if youre smart and talented and good enough, you can do anything. About the Book Lucy Knisley explore fertility, pregnancym and motherhood in this memoir.

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