On the Connectedness of Birth and Death: An Interview with Erica Stern  - Chicago Review of Books

On the Connectedness of Birth and Death: An Interview with Erica Stern  - Chicago Review of Books

Many years ago, during a screening of the documentary The Business of Being Born, a woman I knew who’d recently given birth got up and left mid-film. Later, she told me it had been too triggering—her birth experience wasn’t what she’d hoped for and was in a constant mind loop of could’ve, should’ve, would’ve. I think of that woman when I find books that explore childbirth and the postpartum period with honesty, rawness, and tenderness. They’re r…