Molly Caro May is the author of The Map of Enough and Body Full of Stars. She received a writing fellowship at the Taft–Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center, and her work has appeared in Salon, The Hairpin, Orion, and Fourth Genre. After living in six countries and eight U.S. states, she has now made a home in Montana, where she lives with her husband, two young daughters, and Great Dane mutt. Find out more at mollycaromay.com
"If you or someone you love is experiencing postpartum depression,
pick up this book. The isolation the author felt after the birth of
her child made her realize how little acknowledgement society gives
to the mental burdens placed on new moms." —Kaitlyn Pirie, Good
Housekeeping
"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected
with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a
subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum
depression." —Real Simple, a Best Book of the Year
"What a beautiful, heart–filled, and honest account of motherhood
and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro
May's." —Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, creators of The Business of
Being Born and authors of Your Best Birth
"Her brutally honest account is both deeply personal and
comfortingly universal. She doesn’t shy away from the
pain—emotional, physical, cultural, generational—of what she calls
her 'passage into motherhood' . . . Her best, clearest, most
lyrical writing practically dances off the page when she’s
describing her love for her daughter." —PureWow
"Oh, you thought motherhood was all sweetness and light? Then this
book is here, finally, to set you straight . . . I have never read
anything so honest about the transition into motherhood before . .
. Everyone who reads this book will also benefit from a generous,
accurate, and hopeful story that ends not with a happily ever after
but with honesty, dignity, and strength in the face of life’s
ongoing challenges, whether we are mothering our children, or just
ourselves." —The Rumpus
"Grapples with questions of love, grief, and healing as she
undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her
first child." —Kerri Jarema, Bustle
"May’s writing is intensely, beautifully visceral and she brings a
new perspective to the postpartum period." —Book Riot
"In this raw and lyrical book, the author holds nothing back. From
the blinding rages to the blackest emotional abysses, she records
all with an eloquence that is both powerful and restorative . . . A
searingly eloquent memoir." —Kirkus Reviews
"Her healing memoir unabashedly begins a long–neglected
conversation about postpartum rage and the power of reconnecting
with your body that many a mom will appreciate." —Pregnancy &
Newborn
"If there was ever a person who could express through her tender
use of language, the pain, upset and rage that so many new mothers
feel in the dark, it’s Molly Caro–May." —Mama Glow
"Radiant. Bursting with wisdom and wit, raw with honesty, full of
the truth. This book is nothing short of remarkable, life
affirming, and breathtaking." —Mira Ptacin, author of Poor Your
Soul
"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to
our bodies—for our own good and for the good of humanity. Through
sharing her fierce and shattering story, Molly May goes straight to
the pelvis of female rage and echoes the legacy of the sacred
feminine. It is healing, illuminated." —Laura Munson, New York
Times bestselling author of This Is Not The Story You Think It
Is...
"This is the biggest story of humanity that is rarely told—the way
in which birth isn’t just the passage for our existence on the
planet, but how it breaks, transforms, and emboldens women
worldwide. Molly May’s unflinching telling of her own rage and
reconstitution after birth is beyond brave. It’s
paradigm–shifting." —Courtney E. Martin, author of Perfect Girls,
Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Harms Young Women
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