Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth about Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives
About this title: This revealing and thought-provoking anthology from Salon.com brings together a conflicting chorus of opinions about the difficult choice to breed or not to breed in 21st-century America.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 04/2006
ISBN-13:9780060737818ISBN:0060737816
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 266 p. read more
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Description: Fine. 0060737816 Excellent condition FIRST EDITION ~ 1ST Printing Hard cover book with paper dust jacket cover! Clean pages, no writing in book, dust jacket great with mild edge rubs, dust jacket price states $24.95, corners crisp, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780060737818ISBN:0060737816
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 266 p. Audience: General/trade. CLEAN, TIGHT HARDCOVER IN FINE DUSTJACKET read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780060737818ISBN:0060737816
Description: Good-Used in Good jacket. / 0060737816. Dj shows wear on top and some pages are dog-eared. Ships with confirming email. 100% money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
Date Published: 2006
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BW2-Book has some smudges on the cover, label on the back, and light shelf wear otherwise fine. Foreword by Anne Lamott. A revealing and thought-provoking anthology from Salondotcom which brings together a conflicting chorus of opinions about the difficult choice to breed or not to breed in twenty-first-century America. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780060737825ISBN:0060737824
Description: New. Brand new. Just a bit of ever so slight shelf wear but it is new, crisp and unread! May have publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. From Publishers Weekly: Inspired by a letter written to requesting more stories about people who chose not to have children, senior editor Leibovich brought together a broad spectrum of writers to create a refreshing, sometimes painful, collection of essays in which, to quote the subtitle, "28 Writers Tell the ... read more
"If you're looking for a book to help you make a choice, this ain't it. I was disappointed with the number of stories that involved people who hadn't given parenthood much thought. A few of the "no to kids" stories were really, to me, more of a "maybe"... and a few of the "maybe" stories were really "yesses." I was hoping for a balanced book, but they gave way more weight to the yes category than the no category (maybe that's because more people are parents? But still, I was disappointed).
Some stories seemed like they were random thoughts jotted down. Other stories were very honest, some even heartwrenching, and I enjoyed reading them.
Overall, I don't think I would say it was worth the read."
"The book opens with a preface by Anne Lamott and then an intro by Leibovich, and then it is structured in three sections: the Nos, the Maybes, and the Yeses (I think they have different titles than that, but I don't have the book in front of me right now and that's the gist of it). Just by looking at the structure I assumed that the book was taking a stance and ending on the Yeses to drive home the "Yes" point of view, but after reading the book I didn't have that feeling at all. Many of the essays in the book were bittersweet--the Yeses as well as the Nos. Many of the fears expressed in the No section were realized by the Yes writers as very real consequences of having a child and as personal regrets. Many of the No writers were perfectly happy in the lives they'd built for themselves and just wished their families and friends would stop feeling sorry for them. Hard topics like abortion are dealt with honestly. There are also quite a number of male perspectives (among them writers like Cary Tennis and Rick Moody), which for some reason surprised me, quite pleasantly--it was lovely to see perspectives on the idea of becoming a father. I highly recommend this book to anyone considering having a child and to anyone considering not having a child. No definitive answers, plenty of food for thought."
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