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Poor your soul / Mira Ptacin.

by Ptacin, Mira.

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Soho Press, [2016]

Ptacin, Mira -- Family.

Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.

First pregnancy -- Biography.

Loss (Psychology) -- Biography.

Children -- Death -- Psychological aspects.

9781616956349 (hc.)

1616956348 (hc.)

311 p. ; 22 cm.

"At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is woven together with the story of her mother, who emigrated from Poland, also at the age of twenty-eight, and adopted a son, Julian. Julian would die tragically, bringing her an unimaginable grief. A memoir about loss and self-preservation, grief and recovery, and mothers and daughters, Poor Your Soul is a beautiful examination of free will, love, and the fierce bonds of family. Mira Ptacin’s work has appeared in Guernica, NPR, New York Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The National Book Foundation, The Morning News, Tin House, The Rumpus, and more. She teaches memoir writing to women at the Maine Correctional Center and lives on Peaks Island, Maine.

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