Rocking the Babies

By Linda Raymond

Book Overview

In the neonatal intensive care unit of an Ohio hospital, two black women sit rocking babies who are either too small or too damaged to survive without the loving care of volunteer grandmothers. As... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140232540
• ISBN13: 9780140232547
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written

Linda Raymond has done an excellent job with her beautiful characters in Rocking Babies. She tells a poignant story of love and grief as we follow the "grandmas" who care for the most vulnerable.

It feels like sitting at home with Grandma

The best way to describe this book is that if your love listening to your grandmother tell stories, then read it!

Great story

This story is typical of how african american mothers and grandmothers have been throughout the generations. Always time to sooth and offer love.

Amazing debut

Amazing debut by Raymond. Ignore the Kirkus review above. This is a very good book. Deeply moving, always believable. All the minor characters (the nurse, social worker, etc.) are as well drawn as the major ones. The family histories are very involving. The last chapter is the best in a first novel in some time. Please Ms. Raymond, write a second book, soon. This was a great reading experience. Highly recommended

Good Story Well Told

Linda Raymond is a very good story teller. She tells several stories in this one book and they are woven together beautifully. It's about life. It's uplifting. The scenes inside the neonatal intensive care unit are very realistic. I have a background in neonatology and it made me a little homesick for the NICU. Every one of the characters seemed too real to be made up. A wonderful read. Get your hankies out before the end