{"product_id":"9780547394404","title":"This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood","description":"Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks’ gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to \"let her babies go\" — she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Lovely Life\u003c\/i\u003e tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins — the harrowing medical interventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death. In the end, the longdelayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman’s intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother’s fierce love for her children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120163373296,"sku":"9780547394404","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547394404_p0.jpg?v=1769896087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547394404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}