{"product_id":"9781619025134","title":"Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"What a beautiful, heart-filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May’s.\" —Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, creators of \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Being Born\u003c\/i\u003e and authors of \u003ci\u003eYour Best Birth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003ePoor Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What if labor does not end with pregnancy but continues into a mother’s postpartum life? How can the fiercest love for your child and the deepest wells of grief coexist in the same moment? How has society neglected honest conversation around the significant physical changes new mothers experience? Could real healing occur if generations of women were fluent in the language of their bodies? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Molly Caro May grapples with these questions as she undergoes several unexpected health issues—pelvic-floor dysfunction, incontinence, hormonal imbalance—after the birth of her first child, Eula. While she and her husband navigate the ups and downs of new parenthood, May moves between shock, sadness, and anger over her body’s betrayal. She finally identifies the root of her struggle as premenstrual dysphoric disorder and so begins her exploration of what she calls female rage. The process leads May to an overdue conversation with her body in an attempt to balance the physical changes she experiences with the emotional landscape opening up before her. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBody Full of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is dark and tender, honest and corporeal. It reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies. Most of all, it is a celebration of the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co-parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167783239920,"sku":"9781619025134","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619025134_p0.jpg?v=1763853790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619025134","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}