“Menkedick is a skilled storyteller and her accounts of women from varied socioeconomic and racial backgrounds drive home how little society has to offer mothers. One told Menkedick that she’s “terrified of everything”; another wore ankle weights to keep herself from sleepwalking and hurting her baby; yet another was placed on a 72-hour hold at a psychiatric ward geared toward people detoxing from drugs because there was nowhere else to put her. None received proper help until they either found it themselves or hit dangerous levels of anxiety.”
Read more in The New York Times Book Review!