The author of Welcome to My Country and Prozac Diary describes how she as a career-oriented and independent woman made the decision to bring a child into her life, discussing the impact of having a baby on a marriage, her planned-out life, her personal needs, and her eventual choice to stop taking Prozac during the first trimester of her pregnancy. 15,000 first printing.
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Praise for Lauren Slater
“A consummately tricky and captivating book. It is difficult to believe, at times, and from the first page to the last, it is almost impossible to put down.”
—The Washington Post Book World, about Lying
“Like Oliver Sacks...Ms. Slater writes about her patients with enormous compassion and insight....A revealing memoir and thoughtful meditation on the therapeutic process itself...powerful.”
—The New York Times, about Welcome to My Country
“With the playful mind of a philosopher and the exquisite, unique voice of a poet, Slater renders a self-portrait that challenges our understanding of illness and health—and illuminates both.”
—The Washington Post Book World, about Prozac Diary
“Stunningly written...[Welcome to My Country] is relentless in its mask-stripping, yet instead of indulgence the act of revealing is handled with beauty and bravery.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review, about Welcome to My Country
“The beauty of Lauren Slater’s prose is shocking....Slater’s vision is, ultimately, one of unity and possibility.”
—Newsday, about Welcome to My Country
“Evocative and moving...Slater is more poet than narrator, more philosopher than psychologist, more artist than doctor....Every page brims with beautifully rendered images of thoughts, feelings, emotional states.”
—San Francisco Chronicle, about Welcome to My Country
"I think Lauren Slater writes with truth and beauty about the risks and fears and joys of motherhood. From her unique perspective--the trained psychologist with the deep personal experience of mental illness, the carefully balanced professional woman who decides to head forward into motherhood, the lyrical writer who finds in even her most unexpected emotions a source of powerful images and poetry--she has created here a book which speaks both to her difficult and complex medical and psychologic journey toward motherhood and also to the universal experience of learning what it is to love a child."
--Perri Klass, author of Other Women's Children and Baby Doctor
"Slater lifts the gag order on prgnancy with candor, wit and a lyricism that stuns as well as instructs. Lauren Slater is a writer's writer--Love Works Like This reaffirms her obvious gift for language and empathy. A must-read for anyone finding themselves in the wondrous yet precarious position of motherhood."
--Suzanne Finamore, author of The Zygote Chronicles
A 1999 National Magazine Award nominee, Lauren Slater has a master’s degree in psychology from Harvard University and a doctorate from Boston University. Her work was chosen for the Best American Essays/Most Notable Essays volumes of 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Her previous book, Lying, was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2000. Slater lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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