My Baby First Birthday

by Jenny Zhang

Book Overview

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. How we idealize birth and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947793810
• ISBN13: 9781947793811
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"