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Born
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781552455005
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
What happens when an English teacher goes into labour during a high school lockdown?
High school English teacher Elise loves teaching Shakespeare. She is also very pregnant and trapped in a classroom with her Grade 12 students during a lockdown. Anthony, the cause of the lockdown, is roaming the halls with a knife in search of some solace, consumed by thoughts of his best friend Samantha's suicide attempt. Maria, the school's counsellor, is second-guessing her decision to turn him in.
As the lockdown drags on, Elise can no longer deny that she's going into labour. And she'll have to rely on the students to get her through: Shai-Anna and Faduma end up acting as midwives, and the others do what they can.
This isn't your typical lockdown story. With clear-eyed empathy, Born explores the many pitfalls and utopian possibilities of the school system, motherhood, and caregiving, and the sometimes fraught, sometimes transcendent nature of the student-teacher relationship.
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