Expectations: Thirty Women Talk About Becoming a Mother

These mothers range from a successful artist to a young drug addict to adoptive parents to the mother of triplets. The stories of the women encompass a complex range of emotions--not only "full-bodied, heart-wrenching, breath-stopping love," but confusion, disaster, ambivalence, sorrow, fatigue, and bemusement, too. The breadth of experience reflected in the text, combined with the portraits of real people, sends a powerful message to new mothers: Mom, you are not alone. --Ericka Lutz