“About What Was Lost” in Elle Magazine
About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope, edited by Jessica Berger Gross, has just been published, and this month it is reviewed in Elle Magazine. Readers may remember Jessica’s wonderful essay “Garden City” from It’s a Girl — it was a pleasure working with her for my anthology, and a delight being edited by her for hers. This collection features heartbreaking, poignant, and uplifting stories by women (including authors from the Boy and Girl books like Caroline Leavitt and Joyce Maynard) about a topic that’s often impossible to broach. When Jessica originally approached me about the project, I told her I’d be happy to let her reprint my chapter from Mother Shock titled “Misconceptions” — but instead, at her suggestion, I expanded and rewrote the essay, making it longer and deeper and, with her excellent editorial eye, turning it into something new. It’s one of my favorite pieces now, and I’m honored to be included in such an important book.